Recipes

OKAZU Spicy Chili Miso Peanut Noodles
Mar 28, 2025
Everyone’s been asking for this one! These Spicy Peanut Noodles are creamy, bold, and ready in just 10 minutes. The secret? A spoonful of OKAZU Chili Miso for the perfect balance of heat and umami. It’s an easy, satisfying meal—just mix, toss, and slurp.  
Easy Crispy Brussels Sprouts
Oct 08, 2024
Brussel sprouts make the perfect side dish to any vegan, vegetarian or keto meal. Plus they're so easy to make and contain a ton of fiber as well as Vitamin K and A!
Easy Motoyaki Sauce with ABO Miso Black Pepper
Mar 14, 2024
This is inspired from the Japanese style of cooking preparation, that uses mayonnaise and miso paste as the base of the sauce, topped on seafood (usually oysters), and is baked in the oven. Taking it up a notch using our flavorful ABO Miso Black Pepper, this recipe is perfect with any type of seafood, which interestingly goes well with mushrooms too, for vegetable lovers.
Kombu no Tsukudani (stewed kelp)
Oct 06, 2023
When Abokichi first started out, we used to sell onigiri (Japanese rice balls) and the "chili and kelp" flavour was one of our best sellers. It was the popularity of this onigiri that led us to start selling OKAZU in jars. Now, we are happy to share the original recipe for the kelp portion of this onigiri flavour. While cooking, your home will be filled with the tangy nostalgic aroma we sometimes encounter while walking around Tokyo.
OKAZU Teriyaki Chicken with Rice
Sep 03, 2023
Indulge in the perfect balance of tangy teriyaki sauce, fluffy steamed rice, and Abokichi Okazu's irresistible umami kick. This easy-to-make dish will transport you to a seat at Freshii, tantalizing your taste buds with a tasty combination of Asian flavours. Get ready to savour a unique fusion of Japanese, Chinese, and Thai cuisine in every bite! This recipe was generated by artificial intelligence. Here is the original blurb the bot wrote: "Indulge in the perfect balance of tangy, savory teriyaki sauce, fluffy steamed rice, and Abokichi Okazu's irresistible umami kick. This easy-to-make dish will transport you to the streets of Tokyo, tantalizing your taste buds with its authentic flavors. Get ready to savor a unique fusion of Japanese and Canadian cuisine in every bite!" As amazing as the AI is, it got some things wrong. You will not find this dish on the streets of Tokyo, but it's still delicious. I prepared the AI generated recipe to a T, and then fixed it, just by reducing the saltiness and thickening the sauce. I think that any choice of protein would work well in this recipe.
OKAZU Fried Rice (Cha-han)
May 31, 2023
Fried rice is a great fridge cleaning kind of dish, so use liberty to play with it and use up all those veggies that are getting sad in the crisper. We cook rice often around here, often for no particular reason other than to have some cooked rice on hand. Sometimes it gets consumed when it’s fresh and hot, sometimes, it ends up in the fridge. I’d suggest you think of fried rice as French toast’s rice-y cousin. Just as you can revive slightly stale bread for delicious French toast, you want fridge rice for fried rice. It’s a favourite side dish around here, but can easily become the main course if you’ve loaded it up with enough veggies and protein. Don’t forget to clean out your fridge by using whatever needs to get used. Some inclusions that we also enjoy are cabbage, broccoli, bell pepper, and