Recipes

The pleasures that saké can bring as a simple beverage are evident throughout this website. It can also be used, with great success, to create some interesting cocktails or saké fruit infusions and will enhance the flavors of any food. However, remember that like using wine for cooking, it is not necessary to use a Château Petrus, for instance, to make a great tasting sauce or sangria; likewise with saké, one need not use Ginjo and Daiginjo brews. Stick with anything below Junmai and Honjozo grade saké.

Coming soon, you will find some great saké recipes created by some of the countries top chefs and mixologists.

Featured Food Recipe
Saké & Mirin Lacquered Baby Back Ribs
Recipe yield: serves 2  Ribs:1 rack of pork baby back ribs4 cup veal stock1 cup chicken stock1 portion cure(see below)1 portion mir poixCure:1 cup sugar1 cup kosher salt2 tsp ground cinimmon1tsp ground cloves1tsp ground smoked paprika1tsp cumin...read full recipe
Added/Modified: 05-07-2006

Featured Beverage Recipe
Saké: Brewing at Home
Brew your own saké! Who knew it could be so simple? Well maybe not. The following links are for sites that list recipes for brewing saké at home. We have not personally tested these recipes and will not take responsibility fo...read full recipe
Added/Modified: 06-03-2006

Beverage Recipe
The Kira-Kira
This cocktail uses a combination of three different sakés to find its perfect balance. It is, the Ultimate Saketini  1 part Shochu: You can use any type of Shochu, however, Mugi (barley) and Kome (rice) will give the best results 1...read full recipe
Added/Modified: 02-09-2006