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Home ยป Salad

Traditional & Modern Japanese Salads

A tasty, refreshing, and healthy salad can make a great side dish or even a main meal. In Japan, we love to utilise many varieties of vegetables and condiments to make healthy, easy, and delicious salads. Take a browse to discover tasty fresh salads and vegetable dishes.

Authentic Japanese Salads

Japanese potato salad served in a shallow bowl with salad serving wooden spoon and falk

Japanese Potato Salad 

4.93 from 26 votes
Japanese Potato Salad is a staple of Japanese home-cooking because it’s so easy to make and uses ingredients everyone…
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Japanese cucumber salad served in a small Japanese pottery bowl with a pair of chopsticks

Cucumber Sunomo (Japanese Cucumber Salad)

4.80 from 20 votes
Japanese cucumber salad known as “Kyuri no Sunomono” in Japanese is a very refreshing, light, and delicious side dish….
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