Vegan Japanese foods?!
Are there any vegan Japanese foods I can buy from a Japanese restaurant, health food store, or make at home!? also how do cook seaweed!?Www@FoodAQ@Com
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You're going to have to be very careful because Japanese use fish parts in everything, including miso soup, entrees, and dipping sauces!. It's likely that fried foods have been coated with eggs!. also, if you are anti-MSG, Japanese tend to cook with MSG coated salt (dashi shio)!. Be sure to request no dashi and super stress that because I still get fish flakes on top!. You could try to search for veg(etari)an or macrobiotic restaurants online and that might be a bit safer or sympathetic!. Once I lived off edamame and zaru soba but not sure if the dipping sauce was safe!. If you have access to a kitchen, it's better to cook for yourself!. For noodle dishes I just buy vegan noodles and make a soup or fry it at home!. Raw veggies dipped in ponzu is a quick snack!. Seaweed!.!.!. I don't cook with it, sorry!. Just use dried sheets once in awhile!. It's common to put konbu in soup or maybe that's just an Okinawan thing!. Could always keep on hand dried wakame and throw it in a miso soup!.
There is seaweed based dashi as opposed to fish but the one I see in Japanese shops in America still contains some no-no's for me (I think it had some fish as well as MSG) so I just don't use dashi for cooking which my mother thinks is the ultimate sin in Japnaese cooking!. There's a few sushi rolls that are safe--you could get cucumber, nattou, etc!. Street okonomiyaki is not safe--make it at home!. If you search hard enough, you can find brands of various sauces that are vegan but it is not the majority of sauces!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
There is seaweed based dashi as opposed to fish but the one I see in Japanese shops in America still contains some no-no's for me (I think it had some fish as well as MSG) so I just don't use dashi for cooking which my mother thinks is the ultimate sin in Japnaese cooking!. There's a few sushi rolls that are safe--you could get cucumber, nattou, etc!. Street okonomiyaki is not safe--make it at home!. If you search hard enough, you can find brands of various sauces that are vegan but it is not the majority of sauces!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Cookeryclub have a japanese section with Tofu Teriyaki to name but one!.
I personally love tempura, udon noodles, sweet potato fritters made by coating in !? Japanese breadcrumbs!. I love their curry sauce with it!.
You can make cucumber sushi!.
Mooli and carrot salad is good to with rice wine dressing and black sesame seeds!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
I personally love tempura, udon noodles, sweet potato fritters made by coating in !? Japanese breadcrumbs!. I love their curry sauce with it!.
You can make cucumber sushi!.
Mooli and carrot salad is good to with rice wine dressing and black sesame seeds!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
There should be some rolls with rice and cucumber inside with seaweeds coating!. You have ask them to be sure because every Japanes restuarant unless they have the same owner has it's own recipe for the rolls!. I usually deep the seaweeds on a tempura mixed then fry it and dip in tempura sauce!. I think you have to steam it before using in sushi or rolls!.Www@FoodAQ@Com