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Japanese healthy recipes

9 Japanese healthy recipes, in a suggested order.

These are the 9 Japanese recipes filed under healthy: 9 of the 189 healthy dishes on the site, and 9 of its 86 Japanese recipes. Of these, 6 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Miso Dressing (5 min), Sesame Ginger Dressing (5 min) and Gomae (15 min). For 2, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. All of them are marked easy.

As written, 8 are vegetarian, 3 vegan and 9 dairy-free. Another recipe meets a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Japanese healthy recipes — all 9 recipes

Miso Soup
Japanese
Prep
5m
Cook
10m
Serves
4
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Miso Soup

The soup that anchors every Japanese meal: a clean dashi broth, silken tofu, wakame and miso whisked in off the…

35 min · Easy
Gomae
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
5m
Serves
4
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Gomae

Blanched spinach squeezed dry and dressed in a sweet-savoury sesame paste ground in a mortar — the Japanese side…

15 min · Easy
Japanese Ginger Dressing
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
0m
Serves
6
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Japanese Ginger Dressing

A smooth, tangy dressing of onion, fresh ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar and oil, blended until pale and creamy like…

40 min · Easy
Miso Dressing
Japanese
Prep
5m
Cook
0m
Serves
6
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Miso Dressing

A savoury, slightly sweet dressing of white miso, rice vinegar, sesame oil and ginger whisked until smooth.

5 min · Easy
Nasu Dengaku
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Nasu Dengaku

Aubergine halves scored, roasted until collapsing, then lacquered with a sweet-salty miso glaze under the grill…

35 min · Easy
Sesame Ginger Dressing
Japanese
Prep
5m
Cook
0m
Serves
6
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Sesame Ginger Dressing

A tangy dressing of rice vinegar, soy sauce, fresh ginger, toasted sesame oil and honey, shaken together in a jar.

5 min · Easy
Shirataki Noodle Bowls
Japanese
Prep
10m
Cook
10m
Serves
2
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Shirataki Noodle Bowls

Rinsed shirataki noodles stir-fried with mushrooms, spinach and egg in a garlic, ginger and soy sauce.

20 min · Easy
Soba Noodle Salad
Japanese
Prep
15m
Cook
6m
Serves
4
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Soba Noodle Salad

Cold buckwheat noodles with cucumber, carrot, spring onion and sesame seeds in a soy and rice vinegar dressing.

21 min · Easy
Sunomono
Japanese
Prep
15m
Cook
0m
Serves
4
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Sunomono

Paper-thin cucumber salted, squeezed and dressed in a sharp, lightly sweet rice vinegar, soy sauce and ginger…

15 min · Easy