Plant-Based Matters

[レモンケイパー風味ちりめんキャベツのサラダ（ヴィーガン）] If you’re looking for a delicious & light seasonal side salad, try this vegan-friendly Lemon Caper Savoy Cabbage Salad! It’s crunchy, lemony and refreshing yet it has a briny bite from the capers & onion as an accent. It’s one of my favorite salads read more

[ヴィーガンキムチ] This Vegan Kimchi is my interpretation of the most common type of Korean kimchi made of napa cabbage but without the use of rice flour paste! It’s spicy, tangy, slightly sweet with lots of umami taste. My vegan kimchi is just as delicious as read more

[青のりペペロンチーノ風パスタ] Spicy Garlic and Oil Pasta with Aonori is a Japanese fusion vegan pasta recipe of the popular Italian pasta, spaghetti aglio olio e peperoncino. This recipe is probably one of my favorite pasta recipes that I’ve created! This spicy garlic oil pasta with aonori read more

Takanotsume (Dried Hawk Claw Chili Peppers) is a type of hot & spicy chili pepper commonly used in Japanese cooking. Although Japanese cuisine isn’t really known for spicy food, the hawk claw chili peppers (takanotsume) can be seen as one of the ingredients for spicy read more

[紅しょうが炒飯] Beni Shoga Fried Rice is Japanese home-style vegan fried rice featuring the Japanese pickled ginger called beni shoga. It’s very easy to make with simple ingredients, yet the result is super flavorful and has an unique taste that you won’t find in other typical read more

Beni Shoga (Red Pickled Ginger Stirps) is non-fermented Japanese ginger pickles that’s pickled in ume plum vinegar. It’s often used as a topping for Japanese dishes such as okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancakes) and yakisoba (Japanese stir-fried noodles.) Beni shoga is vegan, gluten-free and oil-free. If read more

Aonori is Japanese dried green seaweed flakes that you may have seen on top of okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancakes) and yakisoba (Japanese stir-fried noodles.) It’s naturally vegan, low in calories and rich in nutrients such as minerals and vitamins. Aonori should be one of  the read more

If you are looking for another type of soy sauce but not tamari or ponzu, Smoked Soy Sauce (Kunsei Shoyu) may be the next item that’s missing in your vegan Japanese pantry! There are a couple of different types of soy sauce you may want read more

[ヴィーガンポテトサラダ] Vegan Japanese Potato Salad is a vegan version of an authentic-taste Japanese potato salad just like the one my mom would make for our family! It’s perfectly delicious on its own or served as a side dish with, you guessed it, a bowl of read more

You may already have Tamari (Tamari Shoyu) in your vegan pantry which is a popular gluten-free soy sauce as an alternative to conventional soy sauce. There are a couple of different types of soy sauce you may want to have in your vegan pantry such read more