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Salted winter yellowtail

Even a veteran master chef can encounter dishes whose cooking method is impossible to grasp just by hearing about it or seeing it once. This Pro's…

Deep-fried and simmered monkfish

At the restaurant where I work in Oarai, Ibaraki, monkfish is an ingredient we use often during its harvest season, from November through March. By…

• Serves 1 · ¥250

• Cook time 40 min

Spring greens and firefly squid

We value the green fragrance and refreshing texture of the wild mountain vegetables.

Cauliflower Mousse, "When Spring Begins to Scent the Air"

This appetizer (sakizuke) spotlights cauliflower, an ingredient at the end of its winter season. The cauliflower mousse is meant to convey a sense of…

• Serves 10 · ¥320

• Cook time 1 hr

Crab, Local Clam and Rapeseed Blossom Crystal Aspic

“Knorr® Chicken Consommé” makes generous use of extract from fresh, domestic mature hens (“rōkei”), together with chicken meat and chicken fat…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 3 min

Turban shell with liver dressing, roe-bearing shrimp, spring cabbage Hakata-style, pressed chicken terrine with fava bean aspic, angelica-tree shoot smoked salmon roll, burdock wrapped in conger eel, icefish plum uiro, lotus root stuffed with orange, rapeseed blossom and prosciutto roll

Celebratory dishes. The sazae with liver dressing: the sazae is steamed with sake, then its liver is combined with a tofu-based white dressing to…

• ¥590

• Cook time 2 hr

Pufferfish soft roe mochi, napa cabbage pureed soup, bamboo shoot flower-raft garnish

Fugu shirako is a prized, expensive ingredient valued for its creamy, rich flavor; in season it is typically served as grilled shirako or in fugu…

• Serves 1 · ¥600

• Cook time 1 hr

Bamboo shoot miso-glazed and grilled three ways -- sansho-leaf miso, dengaku miso, and yuzu miso, cornetfish and celtuce stem dressed with fish roe, icefish sushi wrapped in a cherry leaf, baby turban shell coated with sea urchin, foie gras in an amber jelly, salmon rolled in a brocade pattern

The grilled hassun course is bamboo shoot dengaku, three ways. The bamboo shoot is rehydrated with rice bran and dried chili, then peeled, cleaned…

• ¥1,340

• Cook time 40 min

Tilefish Grilled with Shuto-Koji, New Bamboo Shoot Grilled with Sake and Salt

For the tilefish grilled with shuto-koji, I use amazake (fermented sweet rice drink). To make the amazake, I cook rice porridge at a ratio of three…

• Serves 1 · ¥650

• Cook time 1 hr

Assorted Sprouting Spring Vegetables and Fresh Fish

This is a sashimi dish I devised as a way to work around rising ingredient costs. For the assorted sprouting spring vegetables and fresh fish, since…

• Serves 1 · ¥900

• Cook time 30 min

Bamboo shoot in a boat-shaped presentation, shrimp crystal-coated in gelatin, broad bean simmered in syrup, rapeseed blossom topped with snowflake meringue and served with egg-yolk mustard, three-color cherry-blossom tofu, and spring baby turnip three-color cherry-blossom-viewing dumplings

For the appetizer course, the bamboo shoot funamori is bamboo shoot rehydrated in rice bran, then rinsed of the bran and shaped into a boat. For the…

• ¥1,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Asari clams and rapeseed blossoms in mustard dressing, with lily bulb

As with the hamaguri clams, the key with asari clams too is not to overcook them, so they finish soft and tender.

Spring baby sea bream grilled with a rapeseed-blossom glaze, fat greenling grilled with sansho leaf

I pictured the beautiful April season at the restaurant where I work in Chiba, with cherry blossoms and rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and expressed…

• Serves 1 · ¥1,000

• Cook time 1 hr

Conger eel roll with spring greens, urui dusted with kuzu starch, sweet shrimp tossed with shuto, three-color cheese terrine, baby turban shell baked with cream

The conger eel roll with spring greens came from wanting to make the most of lettuce's fresh green color, and is an application of our usual…

Nanohana Espuma Sauce, Herring Umani, Bamboo Shoot Tosa-ni, Pine-Cone-Cut Kuwai, Shogoin Daikon,

This is a dish paired with white wine produced in Yamanashi Prefecture. For the simmered Shogoin daikon, it is cut, peeled, boiled in rice-rinsing…

• Serves 1 · ¥420

• Cook time 2 hr

Spring turnip and Date chicken wings takiawase

As May approaches, the sharp morning and evening chill settles down, comfortable days increase day by day, and there are even days when the heat of…

Wagyu roast with okara — rapeseed blossoms, shredded egg crepe, boiled onion

I myself love roast beef, and one time I tried topping roast beef with simmered okara — it was delicious, so I decided to put it on the menu. Okara…

Snow crab shinjo and Tennoji turnip clear soup

I designed this dish around the early-season (hashiri) appearance of Tennoji turnip, as a way to make use of a winter ingredient. It was a transfer…

• Serves 6 · ¥680

• Cook time 40 min

Whale red meat, grilled with golden egg yolk

This is the grilled course. The marinade for the whale red meat used in the golden-glazed grilling combines dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, mirin…

• ¥2,000

• Cook time 2 hr

Kombu-cured halfbeak layered with bottarga, fugu milt steamed with grated turnip

For the kombu-cured sayori layered with bottarga, I cure the sayori (Japanese halfbeak) in kombu, but sayori absorbs the kombu's flavor easily and…

Clam shinjo

Sea bream spring aspic, kombu-cured Shinshu salmon with vinegar dressing, simmered abalone, prawn with caviar, walnut tofu

First, we come to the five appetizer dishes. I added volume and plated them showily. For the sea bream spring aspic, I worked characters chosen for…

Steamed sushi

This is the rice course, an arrangement of the Fukushima local dishes wappa-meshi, rice served in a bentwood box, and hokkimeshi, surf clam rice. For…

• Serves 3 · ¥780

• Cook time 2 hr

Cod grilled with three flavors

This is a use of the winter ingredient cod. We made cod sanmi-yaki for the enjoyable value of being able to eat three dishes at once. Nagaimo (a type…

• Serves 1 · ¥800

• Cook time 1 hr