Common Japanese Dishes

Rice Dishes

• Gohan – Plain cooked white rice.
• Genmai Gohan – White rice with brown rice
• Ochazuke – Green Tea or Dashi poured over white rice, at times with umeboshi or tsukemono
• Onigiri – Balls of rice with stuffing.
• Kamemeshi – Rice with vegetable, chicken, or seafood topping backed in a pot
• Sekihan – White rice cooked with azuki beans
• Mochi – Rice Cakes
• Omurice – Omelet with fried rice
• Chahan – Japanese version of fried rice (lighter).
• Kayu/Okayu – Rice congee with egg placed in it.
• Sozui – Stewed rice soup with egg, meat, vegetables, mushrooms, or seafood and miso or soy.

Ochazuke

Omurice

Donburi Dishes

Donburi is a single bowl dish of white rice with a single topping:

• Katsudon – Donburi bowl with deep fried pork or chicken topping
• Tekkadon – Donburi bowl with tuna
• Oyakodon – Donburi bowl with chicken and egg topping.
• Gyudon – Donburi bowl with beef
• Tendon – Donburi bowl with tempura topping (fried vegetables or shrimp)
• Unadon – Donburi bowl with eel and vegetables

Oyakodon

Katsudon

VDO : How to cook Oyakodon

Sushi

Sushi is a Japanese originated dish of rice marinated in vinegar and topped with numerous ingredients, often fish.

• Nigiri – A block of rice with ingredients on top – often raw fish
• Maki-zushi – “Roll sushi”; rice and ingredients are rolled into a sheet of nori (seaweed) and cut into smaller pieces
• Temaki – The same as Maki but in a cone shape.
• Chirashi – This involves a bowl of sushi rice with various seafood and vegetable toppings.

Maki-zushi