23 Soy Sauce and Mirin Recipes, the Dinner Power Couple
Beyoncé and Jay Z. Gisele and Tom. Barack and Michelle. Soy sauce and mirin. What do they all have in common? They're power couples; always better when they're together. Salty soy sauce mixed with sweet rice wine (aka mirin) is the ideal simple base for Asian stir-fries and teriyaki sauce, but also works equally well mixed into spicy tofu crumbles, curries, and braised short ribs. So stock your cupboard to make these 23 recipes.
Photo by Alex Lau, Food Styling by Susie Theodorou, Prop Styling by Ayesha Patel9/23Soy-Marinated Eggs
Peden + Munk14/23Soboro Beef
In Japanese, the word for food is the same as the one for rice. Without it, a meal is not a meal. The real genius of rice is revealed when you think about it in reverse: Add just about anything to a bowl of it and, voilà! you’ve got dinner. But don’t think of it as a throwaway fill-you-up starch. Properly cooked short-grain white rice is a craveable study in subtlety and texture, to be mixed and matched at will.
Peden + Munk22/23Anything Goes Donabe
Every culture has a tradition of one-pot meals, and Japan’s donabe happens to be one of the tastiest and most elegant ones on the planet. The word refers both to warming combinations of simmered-together ingredients and to the beautiful earthenware pot they’re traditionally cooked in (we love the gorgeous mushi nabe from Nagatani-en). And while most one-pots are long-cooked, our favorite donabes are kitchen-sink compositions that are ready in minutes. In this particular recipe, chicken, seafood,.…
