10 CIQUAL-sourced Japanese recipes on Radish
In brief
On August 31, 2026, 10 Japanese dishes joined the Radish recipe library: tonkatsu, katsudon, okonomiyaki, oyakodon, yakitori, tempura, Japanese curry (kare raisu), gyudon, salmon onigiri and dorayaki. Nutritional values come from CIQUAL 2025, completed by CoFID (UK) for cooked azuki beans, missing from CIQUAL. The library already had generic Japanese dishes (miso, ramen, teriyaki, gyoza, maki) but none of these 10 specific dishes.
Everyday Japanese cooking isn't just sushi. Katsudon, oyakodon and gyudon — the great classics of donburi, the topped rice bowl — are eaten daily in Japan, along with tonkatsu or Japanese curry. These 10 recipes fill a gap in the Radish library with dishes that weren't there before, each with its macronutrients broken down per portion.
The 10 recipes, calories per portion
Weight and calories below correspond to one portion as defined in the recipe (the number of servings varies by dish):
- Tonkatsu (breaded fried pork cutlet with shredded cabbage) — about 634 kcal for a 225 g portion.
- Katsudon (rice bowl with breaded pork and egg) — about 652 kcal for 353 g.
- Okonomiyaki (cabbage and pork pancake with sauce and mayonnaise) — about 409 kcal for 217 g.
- Oyakodon (chicken and egg rice bowl) — about 489 kcal for 344 g.
- Yakitori (grilled chicken skewers with tare sauce) — about 218 kcal for 155 g.
- Prawn and vegetable tempura — about 367 kcal for 176 g.
- Japanese beef curry (kare raisu) — about 409 kcal for 274 g.
- Gyudon (rice bowl with simmered beef and onion) — about 464 kcal for 324 g.
- Grilled salmon onigiri (rice balls with nori) — about 349 kcal for 192 g.
- Dorayaki (pancakes filled with sweet azuki bean paste) — about 271 kcal for 118 g.
Each recipe is also tagged by diet when relevant: oyakodon, yakitori, tempura, curry and gyudon carry the "high-protein" tag; salmon onigiri is gluten-free; dorayaki is vegetarian.
How these values were built
As with every regional recipe batch on Radish, the method follows three rules:
- CIQUAL first, for most ingredients: pork, chicken, beef, rice, egg, flour, breadcrumbs, cabbage, onion.
- A complementary database when CIQUAL doesn't cover a specific ingredient. That's the case for cooked azuki beans, used in the dorayaki filling: CIQUAL doesn't list it, so CoFID (the UK database) provides the value.
- A cooking yield systematically applied to pan-fried, grilled or simmered meat, fish and vegetables — except for breading, batter, eggs, sauces, sugar, seaweed and already-cooked starches, where no documented loss rate applies.
See in detail how Radish calculates the macros of a homemade recipe, the same method used for this Japanese batch.
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This Japanese batch is part of a broader addition on August 31, 2026: 40 new recipes spread across Japan, Mexico, Indonesia-Malaysia and the Caribbean. The library holds 937 recipes as of September 14, 2026. See the full tour of cuisines covered by Radish for the overview.
General information about the app's recipe library content, not individual nutritional advice. Accurate as of August 31, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
How many Japanese recipes were added to Radish on August 31, 2026?
10: tonkatsu, katsudon, okonomiyaki, oyakodon, yakitori, prawn and vegetable tempura, Japanese curry (kare raisu), gyudon, grilled salmon onigiri and dorayaki.
Where do these Japanese recipes' nutritional values come from?
Mainly CIQUAL 2025, completed by CoFID (the UK database) for cooked azuki beans, a dorayaki ingredient missing from CIQUAL. Every recipe carries a mass balance and an Atwater check.
Did the library already have Japanese recipes before this addition?
Yes: miso, ramen, teriyaki, gyoza, maki and salmon donburi already existed, but none of this batch's 10 dishes (tonkatsu, katsudon, okonomiyaki, oyakodon, yakitori, tempura, kare raisu, gyudon, onigiri, dorayaki) were there.
Key takeaway: 10 new Japanese dishes, sourced from CIQUAL and CoFID, each with calories and macros per portion, in a library of 937 recipes as of September 14, 2026.
General information about the app's recipe library content, not individual nutritional advice.
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