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Karaage (Japanese fried chicken) with honey mayoster sauce is very easy to make, and my guests always enjoy it a lot! It can be served as an appetizer or over a bed of rice as a quick weekday dinner! I usually marinate it the night before to give it more flavor, but if it's a last-minute meal you are preparing, no worries because there's still dipping sauce! Serve hot with shredded lettuce and a lemon wedge.

A recipe for delicious Japanese fried chicken and an accompanying Tonkatsu sauce. Serve with your choice of shredded cabbage, rice, or even mashed potatoes.

I discovered this dish at my Japanese mother-in-law's house during a family holiday buffet. She had many friends who brought wonderful Japanese dishes, and this was and has remained one of my favorites. It's light and fresh any time of the year.

Mochi is a delicious Japanese dessert known for its chewy texture. The addition of pumpkin gives this sweet treat a lovely twist for the fall season.

Even if you're new to sushi making, this recipe for spicy tuna rolls is easy to make at home.

This recipe for Japanese miso soup is made with kombu, bonito flakes, and miso paste. It's simple and comforting.

This delicious sweet potato tempura recipe uses just one sweet potato plus several common pantry ingredients. This easy recipe works to make other vegetable tempura too, such as broccoli, mushroom, and onion.

Chi chi dango, a mochiko dessert confection, is a soft, chewy Japanese treat that is very similar in taste to mochi. It's traditionally served at Girl's Day or Boy's Day celebrations. It makes a great snack for picnics or parties. This recipe is easy to make, but don't double the directions — follow them exactly as written.

This recipe uses thinly sliced pork for a quick Japanese-style sauté. It is excellent with rice and steamed veggies on the side. You can also double the recipe and use whole pork chops or chicken breasts for grilling.

This ginger salad dressing tastes just like the kind they serve in Japanese steakhouses.

Make avocado rolls at home with this easy vegetarian sushi recipe. Serve with wasabi, pickled ginger, and soy sauce.

Crispy, Japanese-style tempura shrimp made with homemade tempura batter. Serve them as an appetizer, main dish, or finger food at your next party.

This Japanese steakhouse yum yum sauce, or white sauce, is a mayonnaise-based sauce that's creamy and delicious. Perfect for dipping or drizzling.

This air fryer tonkatsu recipe is crispy on the outside and tender and juicy on the inside. You can buy bottled sauce, but this homemade version is simple to make and far better. Serve over rice if desired.

A microwave mochi recipe for this Japanese dessert made with sweet rice flour. More varied and interesting flavors are available as well.

This crab sushi roll with imitation crabmeat recipe is delicious and surprisingly simple to make. Sushi is expensive to buy at the supermarket, so making your own will save you tons of money. My husband is a sushi freak! I make this for him all the time.

This coffee jelly is a refreshing Japanese summertime treat made with coffee, powdered gelatin, and sugar. My favorite way to serve it is with frozen whipped cream and chocolate sauce, although it's also delicious with ice cream, regular whipped cream, or flavored coffee cream. It can be served solid in glasses or cubed in bowls.

This Japanese-style cabbage salad is comparable to what is served in Japanese restaurants. It's vegan, tastes great, and goes well with Japanese and American food instead of coleslaw.

This easy onigiri recipe is also fun to make! These rice balls are a staple of Japanese lunchboxes (bento). You can put almost anything in these rice balls; try substituting grilled salmon, pickled plums, beef, pork, turkey, or tuna with mayonnaise.

Sushi rolls can be filled with any ingredients you choose. Try smoked salmon instead of imitation crabmeat. Serve with teriyaki sauce and wasabi.

A California roll is a fresh take on traditional Japanese rice rolls. Filled with avocado, crab, and cucumber, it's fresh and crunchy and makes a filling meal. You can use real or imitation crab.

Oyakodon is a delicious traditional Japanese meal consisting of chicken sautéed and then cooked in a Japanese broth, and then finished with egg and served over rice. It's really easy, filling, and delicious.

This sushi vinegar is simple and perfect!

This Chilean sea bass recipe is melt-in-your-mouth delicious! I had it at Blue Water Grill in NYC, and it was by far the best sea bass I've ever had in my life. This recipe tastes very close to what I had at that restaurant. They served it with bok choy and sticky rice on the side.

Air fryer chicken katsu that is crispy on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside. The sauce is a little bit sweet, a little bit tangy, and complements the chicken perfectly. Serve over rice if desired.

These deep-fried shrimp are coated with crispy panko crumbs to make the easiest, tastiest deep-fried shrimp ever!

Tamago is a Japanese rolled omelet, also known as tamagoyaki. The omelet is sweet, has a light texture, and works well when served over sushi rice with soy and wasabi sauce for dipping.

This sesame-seared tuna is an easy, great-tasting dish. Fresh tuna steaks are coated with sesame seeds, then quickly seared and served rare, so be sure to use good quality fresh tuna.

This Japanese salad dressing is easy and flavorful.

Pickled ginger is called gari or amazu shoga in Japanese. It's served with sushi or sashimi and helps enhance the flavors and clear your taste buds. It's also great with Century Eggs, a Chinese delicacy. You can find prepared pickled ginger in pink or white at most Asian markets but I prefer to make my own and share with family and friends.

Gyoza sauce is a slightly-spicy Japanese dipping sauce for potstickers or spring rolls.

Eel sauce is also called nitsume or kabayaki sauce, and unagi no tare in Japanese. It's a sweet and salty sauce that goes great over grilled fish or chicken and is a common drizzle over sushi. Traditionally it is used on Japanese grilled eel and eel rolls. I also use this sauce over fresh cooked noodles for a quick snack. A half cup of dashi may be added to create a richer, more authentic flavor. (Dashi is a Japanese stock that is best made at home.)

Mochi are small, sweet Japanese cakes made with glutinous rice flour (mochiko). They have a soft, chewy outer layer and a deliciously sticky filling made of sweetened red bean paste. Freezing the red bean paste before you use it is optional but it does make the process easier.

Chicken katsu is Japanese-style fried chicken. This is my family recipe and can also be used to make tonkatsu by using pork cutlets instead of chicken. Serve with white rice and tonkatsu sauce.

This miso soup is full of savory flavors. Add more dashi to your soup if you want a stronger stock. You can use yellow, white, or red miso paste for this soup — yellow miso is sweet and creamy, red miso is stronger and saltier.

Here is my recipe for the perfect sushi rice. You can eat this alone or roll into your favorite sushi roll with ingredients of choice. I use strips of carrots, cucumbers and slices of avocado. You can adjust the amount of vinegar in this recipe to suit your taste.