This full-flavoured tagine is a cheap, healthy way of getting extra vegetables into your family's diet. This dish is suitable for freezing; in fact, freezing will intensify its flavour.

You can find abura soba in the vicinities of Takadanobaba and Waseda (in Shinjuku ward). Ignoring the rather sadistic etymology of its name (literally, “parent-child rice bowl”), oyako-don is the ...