Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata: Sixty Quick and Healthy Recipes by Yoshihiro Murata

Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata: Sixty Quick and Healthy Recipes by Yoshihiro Murata

Yoshihiro Murata, one of the most accomplished and respected figures in Japan's culinary world, has combined his expertise and artistry with his enthusiasm for teaching Japanese cooking to create this exciting new book. Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata presents over sixty healthy home recipes, from classic to modern, ranging from popular restaurant offerings like yakitori, tempura, and shabu shabu to typical home dishes like onigiri (rice balls), miso soup, and tonkatsu fried pork cutlets.

All of the dishes can be made using Western kitchen tools and ordinary ingredients readily available from the supermarket; if a more exotic ingredient is called for, Murata suggests alternatives. And, while he strives to retain the authenticity of a recipe, he also recommends ways for the Western chef to adapt it. For example, in a number of the recipes, he suggests using high-quality store-bought chicken broth, which is also used in Japan, instead of traditional Japanese dashi stock.

Another important aspect of Chef Murata's approach to home cooking is his emphasis on presentation. With vivid color photographs, the book showcases Murata's simple and beautiful ideas for serving and plating the food.

Best known in the U.S. as the owner and chef of the fabulous Kikunoi restaurants, Murata has made it his mission to educate and enlighten food lovers everywhere about his native cuisine, in all its variety. As Chef Murata writes in the Introduction, So let's begin cooking healthy food at home. I assure you that with this book, you can cook Japanese food quickly and easily, and develop a close feeling for the cuisine. I look forward to helping you, even if only a bit little to lead a healthier life and make yourself and your loved ones happier.

Yoshihiro Murata was born in Kyoto, where his family had owned and operated the Kikunoi restaurant for the previous two generations. He spent a few years after graduating from university perfecting his culinary abilities in a Nagoya restaurant before returning to his family's business in 1976. He now owns and operates three restaurants in Kyoto and Tokyo, earning a total of seven Michelin stars (three for his main Kyoto restaurant and two stars each for his other two). Murata is the author of the Kodansha International book Kaiseki.

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ISBN 13	9784770031327
ISBN 10	4770031327
Title	Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata: Sixty Quick and Healthy Recipes
Author	Yoshihiro Murata
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kodansha America, Inc
Year published	2010-08-01
Number of pages	112
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