Japanese New Year's Eve and New Year's Day Recipes

Of course Christmas is important, but for Japanese people, New Year is the most important day of the year. We eat special dishes with various wishes. This is a recipe that I devised so that it can be made overseas.

Handmade soba and udon noodles, crispy tempura, rice cakes and rice crackers are all easy to make with ingredients you are familiar with.

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New Year’s Eve Soba
No-knead Udon and Ramen
Crispy Tempura with Bread Flour
Mochi with Glutinous Rice Flour
Rice Crackers with Rice Flour
Sweet Black Soybeans & Mamekinton

New Year’s Eve Soba

Compared to udon or ramen, making soba requires more skill. If you want to eat soba at the end of the year, but feel that making soba is too much work, this no-knead soba will help. By slightly increasing the ratio of flour, you can easily make handmade soba with a pasta machine, even if you have no experience in making soba.

Soba with Pasta Machine - Easest Homemade Soba

We have buckwheat flour, but no soba noodles. This is a recipe for soba noodles that can be easily made with a pasta machine, even overseas.

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No-knead Udon and Ramen

If you don’t have access to buckwheat flour, I recommend the no-knead udon and ramen. Just put it in a bag and mix it the day before you eat it, and you will have udon or ramen with perfect texture.

No-Knead Udon, How to Make Udon WITHOUT Foot

Even if you only have strong flour, high percentage of protain in flour, you can make udon without kneading or stepping. Just wait and enjoy udon.

No-Knead Chinese Noodle, Ramen, the Easiest Ramen

Even if you only have strong flour, you can make Chinese noodles and ramen without kneading, just by waiting. The easiest Ramen!

Crispy Tempura with Bread Flour

All flour sold in Finland is strong flour, bread flour. It has a lot of gluten and tends to retain moisture. So if you fry tempura using the Japanese recipe, it will be sticky and oily. In such a case, just add some potato starch to the batter and you will have crispy tempura.

Crispy Tempura with All Types of Flour

You can make crispy tempura with any types of flour! Just add potato starch, and the tempura become crispy. Easy and no-fail tempura recipe!

Japanese Noodle Soup Mentsuyu, Tempura Dip Tentsuyu without Mirin, Sake

This is a recipe for Mentsuyu and Tentsuyu, Soba, Udon and Tempura dipping soup without mirin or sake. You can use dashi soup and powder.

Sauce for Ten Don, Tempura Don without Mirin

When you don’t use mirin, no need for using pan. Just mix and put in microwave. Easy and quick sauce is ready for delicious ten don.

Mochi with Glutinous Rice Flour

Mochi is also a luxury item overseas. However, if you use glutinous rice flour available at Asian markets, you can easily make mochi. The key is to use hot water for kneading. If you use water in your recipe, it will take longer to heat in the microwave and it will easily become lumpy. We also recommend the best cooking utensils for making rice cakes.

Making Mochi with Glutinous Rice Flour in Microwave Oven

Mochi is not ice cream with chewy crust. Only the sticky and chewy crust is mochi. You can make mochi using glutinous rice flour easily.

Gyuhi and Habutae Mochi - Mochi Sweets with Microwave

Gyuhi and Habutae Mochi are very famous mochi sweets in Japan. It can be made in a microwave oven with glutinous rice flour available at Asian markets.

Rice Crackers with Rice Flour

Senbei rice crackers, okaki, and arare can be made in the same way as making mochi. Rice flour is used for senbei and glutinous rice flour is used for okaki and arare. It takes about a week to dry, so start preparing as soon as possible.

Deep-fried and Baked Rice Crackers with Rice Flour

This is a recipe for rice crackers that can be easily made with rice flour. You can add a variety of flavors by simply adding Aonori or small shrimp.

Okaki, Arare, Fried Rice Cracker with Glutinous Rice Flour

Using glutinous rice flour, you can make okaki and arare. Just by adding green laver, shrimp, curry powder or Yukari, you can make fried rice crackers with various flavors.

Sweet Black Soybeans & Mamekinton

When you are overseas, it is difficult to get the ingredients for Osechi, and it is hard to make something you are satisfied with. One of the easiest things to make is sweet black soybeans and mamekinton. My grandfather’s favorite dish, mame kinton, is highly recommended.

Kuromame Black Soybeans - Japanese New Year Osechi

Black soybeans are an indispensable part of Osechi food. Please use black soy beans, which can be bought at Asian markets. Normal black beans are not soy beans.

Sweet Bean Kinton, Simmered Beans for Japanese Osechi

This is a New Year's Day staple in my family, my grandfather's favorite, white beans Kinton. This is a recipe for soft boiled beans with a delicious sticky texture.

Japanese New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day Recipes