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If you’re keen to give Japanese food a go, but don’t want to dedicate an entire day shopping around specialist stores before cooking for several more hours, Japaneasy is the way forward. Anderson shows how authentic Japanese food can be cooked in barely any time, with only a few ingredients found in regular supermarkets.

For novice cooks, the information on stocking your pantry at the beginning is particularly useful. In fact, you only need seven essential ingredients: soy sauce, mirin, rice vinegar, dashi, sake, miso and rice.

Once the basic sauces have been mastered, take it up a notch and try making crowd-pleasing favourites such as gyoza, tempura and yakitori. For the adventurous, we recommend Anderson’s Japanese ‘carbonara’ complete with mushrooms, miso and noodles.

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