( Rinnai ) Leggiero Recipe Development

For the recipe development of Rinnai Leggiero, we began with a fundamental question: What does an ideal food culture mean to Rinnai? Working closely with culinary expert Naoko Tanijiri, we developed a collection of dishes and recipes that translate this philosophy into everyday food. Rinnai’s long-standing aesthetic sensibility of shitsujitsu-gōken was reinterpreted for contemporary food and living as shitsujitsu-jūken—bringing together integrity and enduring quality with gentleness and consideration for everyday life. Making use of Leggiero’s ability to bring out the natural qualities of ingredients through waterless cooking, we focused not on elaborate dishes for special occasions, but on food that can be prepared effortlessly every day while bringing comfort to both body and mind. Ingredients, cooking methods, flavor, presentation, and the experience of the table were considered as a whole and refined through repeated experimentation. Rather than developing recipes simply to demonstrate the product’s functions, we translated Leggiero’s philosophy—“Delicious meals, effortlessly, every day”—into food, creating a culinary expression of Rinnai’s vision for a richer relationship between food and everyday life.