Bring these beautifully illustrated masterpieces to life and experience its magical taste and aroma!
If there are two things that everyone has definitely done to date, it would be brushing up on your culinary skills and broadening your cultural horizons by binging on Netflix. It’s time to take things one step further by combining these two skills to create your very own Ghibli masterpiece!
Speaking from experience, there might be a couple of thoughts that will run through your mind when you’re watching a show and a scene involving food appears. “I can totally make this also”, “That’s making me hungry”, “I wonder what it tastes like?” Just to name a few.
Well now you totally can! Read on for more recipes for your favorite Studio Ghibli food that you can recreate at home.
1. Bacon and eggs from Howl's Moving Castle
Video by bonobos25
There’s no secret to making a simple meal like this taste good. All you need is to cook from the heart, and also make your bacon strips extra thick!
2. Ramen from Ponyo
Video by Feast Of Fiction
Nothing beats the comfort of a warm bowl of ramen that can be enjoyed at any time of the day! This simple recipe only requires chicken flavoured ramen, spring onions, hard boiled eggs and ham.
3. Bento from My Neighbor Totoro
Video by Anime Cook
Who doesn't love this breakfast scene from My Neighbour Totoro! With such perfect food placement, it’s honestly quite hard to start digging in on this. If you can’t find shishamo for this recipe, any other type of small fish like anchovy will do as well.
4. Sponge cake from Spirited Away
Video by emmymadeinjapan
A great project for the weekends, recreate this fluffy cheesecake to enjoy during tea time, just like how No-Face did in Spirited Away!
5. Herring pot pie from Kiki’s Delivery Service
Video by Choki
It took a lot of hard work and effort for Kiki to deliver this particular dish, so this has to taste as good as it looks too! You can use any type of white fish for this recipe if herring is not accessible to you.
6. Aji furai” (horse mackerel) from Up On Poppy Hill
Video by Kristin Lagman
We usually enjoy our horse mackerel or saba grilled, but then again, yes to anything fried! Just remember to keep an eye out on the temperature of the oil for this recipe.
7. Steamed red buns from Spirited Away
Video by Feast Of Fiction
Have you ever craved for tau sar pau (red bean bun) as big as da paos (big bun) after watching this particular scene from Spirited Away? With this recipe, you get to make this extra large version like in the movie.
8. Okayu from Princess Mononoke
Video by JapaneseCooking101
A simple and delicious meal that is also really easy to prepare, test your cooking skills by preparing some side dishes that would go well with this rice porridge too!
9. Winter vegetable nimono (stew) from Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Video by TabiEats
An earthy and wholesome dish to have with your family, the ingredients for this meal can be easily found in any supermarket!
10. Salmon in béchamel sauce from Porco Rosso
Video by RecipeHound
This may look like a dish that’s really easy to prepare, but trust us when we say that it comes with real depth of flavour! Add some extra cheese to the sauce for an extra flavour burst.
