Welcome to this course! I‘m Fumiyo Okamoto, the owner and chief instructor of a Japanese cooking class for foreign visitors in Osaka, "Sakura Cook".
What you will learn in this course is authentic Japanese dishes. These can be cooked with basic techniques and improve your knowledge and cooking skills of Japanese dishes step-by-step.
In 2013, Japanese cuisine was registered as an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO. Japanese food, which make the most of natural qualities of ingredients and is nutritiously balanced, has been inherited from generation to generation and is now loved in all over the world.
If you want to learn real Japanese food, this is your course. This course provides you more than just the techniques of cooking, but also deep knowledge about Japanese food and its background. It is not sufficient to understand real Japanese food without knowing about DASHI (Japanese broth) and UMAMI flavor. Or getting to know the world of fermented foods, MISO and soy sauce, will enhance your interest and help understanding in Japanese food.
After mastering the most important element, DASHI, you will learn five dishes, MISOSHIRU, DONBURI, OKONOMIYAKI, UDON and RAMEN. These are popular not only among Japanese but also foreign visitors in Japan and are the most appropriate dishes for you to start with. Don't worry, the cooking techniques are arranged for beginners.
While the cooking skills of this course may not seem enough for intermediate to advanced cooks, you will find this gives you deep knowledge of Japanese cuisine as a part of Japanese culture.
There are many variations of the foods actually eaten in Japan. In this course variations of dishes are shown with numerous photos. Maybe you'll feel like you are enjoying a foodie trip with your eyes. Knowing and understanding variation of dishes may allow you to find a new path arranging your original Japanese food.
Each section describes one dish. Consists of three lectures of "the back ground of the dish", "preparation" and "cooking and presentation". Please see the course outline for the detail. You can review the recipes repeatedly in PDF files as well.
Now, let's start a Japanese cooking journey, together!
