I used store-bought mentsuyu sauce to season the chicken before cooking and was surprised that inexpensive chicken breast becomes tender and delicious. If you use 3x concentrate mentsuyu, you won't need dipping sauce.Slice the chicken breast thinly on the diagonal. I recommend not omitting the ginger. For 2 to 3 servings. Recipe by Usshi

I tried many, many times to make delicious fried chicken without using store-bought fried chicken seasoning.When you're coat chicken with katakuriko, put 2-3 chicken thighs in an inflated plastic bag and shake them right before frying. This way, the chicken will get coated with just the right amount of katakuriko and it'll come out crispy and juicy. Recipe by *3103*

I made this for Christmas this year. I was looking through the ingredients in store-bought sauce and realized that mentsuyu could be used to season roasted chicken.If you have the time, marinate for as long as possible, overnight is the best. Let the flavors settle in at least for an hour. However, if you top with the sauce you can get it to work out.Adjust the baking time and brown color accordingly, so it cooks through to the center. Recipe by Lesser Panda

I previously uploaded a recipe titled [Inexpensive & Filling Chicken Breasts! Juicy Fried Chicken]. I took this and reduced some of the ingredients slightly and then made it into an easy-to-freeze amount. If this recipe makes too much for you, then half everything.Since this is for bento, if you're worried about the garlic, then just add a small amount in or you can completely omit it all together.You add in shichimi spice, but it's just an accent, so it's not going to be overly spicy.Adjust it if your children are going to be eating this. Recipe by Hokkori-no

I made my own version of a recipe I saw on a cooking programme. It's also nice with chicken breast.Seefor how to make sweet and sour soy sauce.Add as much doubanjiang as you like. Recipe by Yuuyuu0221

Deep-frying tofu is too much work, so I shallow-fried the tofu. I made it because I wanted to recreate a dish I used to have at a Japanese pub.It's a shame that I didn't have 'momiji oroshi' (spicy grated daikon radish) this time.You only need to fry the top and bottom of the tofu pieces at Step 3. You don't have to fry the sides.It's also delicious with 'momiji oroshi' (spicy grated daikon radish).I recommend eating this with cooked soba noodles. They're pretty tasty together. For 2 servings. Recipe by Karupinetto

I often prepare this dish for my family, but they don't know how easy this is to make.You only need a small amount of salt and pepper.Make sure to lightly dust the chicken with katakuriko before browning.Since I'm lazy, I don't peel the daikon before grating. It's easier and bulks up the dish.Just be sure to wash it well. Recipe by tama-ma

I watched a recipe from a cooking channel called New Scandinavian Cooking, and the technique grabbed my interest. So you pan-fry pieces of chicken in medium heat while adding a circular, thick stone on top of them. That way, the chicken would cook faster. I used that method (I used a thick circular marble about 20 cm in diameter) and it took about 10 minutes. The result is tasty and yummy! I modified the original recipe according to our preference.

My hometown of Usa is next to Nakatsu, in Oita prefecture. Usa is known as "the place where fried chicken originated".My father loves fried chicken and I originally learnt this fried chicken recipe from him.You can use 1/2 teaspoon of shio-koji (salt-fermented rice malt) which is so popular right now plus 1/2 teaspoon of and salt instead of 1 teaspoon of salt.Deep-frying the chicken twice makes it extra juicy. Recipe by nyajirou

This is made with chicken breasts, which dry out easily, but by seasoning with the sugar and sake, which help to retain liquid, they turn out moist and juicy. I used that method and added some yuzu pepper paste to make this salty fried chicken karaage. They came out so tasty that now they're a common dish in our home.-Not only does rubbing the chicken with sugar and sake season the meat, it also makes it moist and juicy.-By slicing the chicken into thin strips first and then gathering it up, they become plump and tender when fried.-If you want to have a richer flavor, you can add some more salt. Recipe by Niwanomomo

I love eggplants and I want to eat them every day if I could.This recipe is easy and my favorite way to eat eggplants. I think I've been eating them this way for decades.You don't need to soak the eggplants in water. Just cook as soon as you cut them.Add the ginger and mentsuyu as soon as the eggplant slices are cooked. The flavors will penetrate the eggplant well. You could peel the skins if you prefer. For easy to make amount. Recipe by Junchan

I always make rice bowls with meat, but they started to taste even better after I started adding some tofu too.Feel free to use firm or silken tofu, I personally prefer to use silken.Sprinkle over some green onions at the end for a bit of colour.Top off the rice bowl with any sauce left over in the pan at the end.If the flavour is a bit too thin for you, feel free to add some soy sauce or mirin. Recipe by Ryo---ko