ryouri no tezyun wo sumaho de minagara, imouto to issyo ni karee wo tukurimasita.

Here, の connects two nouns:

• 料理 = cooking / a dish / cuisine
• 手順 = procedure, steps, order of doing something

So 料理の手順 means the cooking steps, the procedure for the dish, or the steps of the recipe.

In English, we often use of, for, or just put nouns together, but in Japanese, の is the very common way to link nouns like this.

Examples:

• 日本の文化 = Japanese culture
• 学校の先生 = school teacher
• 料理の手順 = cooking steps / recipe steps

Because 見る usually takes a direct object, and that object is marked by を.

So:

• 手順を見ます = look at the steps
• 手順を見ながら = while looking at the steps

Even though English says look at something, Japanese often just uses を with 見る.

So in this sentence, 手順 is the thing being looked at.

Here, で shows the means/tool or sometimes the place/context in which something happens.

So スマホで見ながら means:

• while looking on a smartphone
• while using a smartphone to look at it

This で is very natural for devices and tools.

Examples:

• パソコンで調べる = look it up on a computer
• スマホで読む = read it on a smartphone
• 箸で食べる = eat with chopsticks

So スマホで here is basically on/with a smartphone.

ながら means while doing.

It attaches to the verb stem:

• 見る → 見
  • ながら = 見ながら

So:

• 手順をスマホで見ながら = while looking at the steps on a smartphone

This shows that two actions are happening at the same time:

1. looking at the steps
2. making curry

A simple pattern is:

• Verb stem + ながら, main action

Examples:

• 音楽を聞きながら勉強する = study while listening to music
• お茶を飲みながら話す = talk while drinking tea

Because ながら specifically emphasizes doing something while doing something else at the same time.

Compare:

• 見ながら作りました = I made it while looking at it
• 見て作りました = I looked at it and made it / I made it after looking at it

So ながら is better when the two actions overlap in time.

In this sentence, the speaker was checking the instructions on the smartphone during the cooking process, not just looking once and then cooking.

Good question. 妹と already means with my younger sister in many contexts, so yes, と can sometimes be enough.

But 一緒に adds the idea of together more clearly and naturally.

So:

• 妹と作りました = I made it with my younger sister
• 妹と一緒に作りました = I made it together with my younger sister

The second version feels a little more explicit and often more natural when you want to stress doing something together.

In Japanese, family terms like 妹, 兄, 母, and 父 often imply my when the speaker is talking about their own family, especially when no other context is competing.

So:

• 妹 usually means my younger sister in a sentence like this

Japanese often leaves out information that is obvious from context. English usually requires my, but Japanese often does not.

Japanese very often omits the subject when it is clear from context.

So this sentence does not explicitly say 私は, but the meaning is naturally understood as something like:

• I made curry together with my younger sister...

Because the verb is 作りました, and the whole sentence sounds like the speaker describing what they did, the subject is understood without being stated.

This is extremely common in Japanese.

Japanese is basically an SOV language: Subject–Object–Verb.

That means the main verb usually comes at the end of the clause or sentence.

In this sentence:

• 料理の手順をスマホで見ながら = while looking at the cooking steps on a smartphone
• 妹と一緒に = together with my younger sister
• カレーを = curry
• 作りました = made

So the final verb 作りました closes the whole sentence.

This is normal Japanese word order.

作りました is the polite past form of 作る.

• dictionary form: 作る = to make
• polite non-past: 作ります
• polite past: 作りました

So it tells you:

1. the action happened in the past
2. the sentence is in polite style

That makes the sentence sound appropriate for normal conversation, explanations, writing for learners, and so on.

To some extent, yes. Japanese word order is more flexible than English, as long as the particles stay correct.

For example, these are still understandable:

• 妹と一緒に、料理の手順をスマホで見ながら、カレーを作りました。
• カレーを、妹と一緒に、料理の手順をスマホで見ながら作りました。

But the original order sounds very natural:

• first the background action: while looking at the steps on the smartphone
• then the companion: with my younger sister
• then the object and main verb: made curry

So yes, some movement is possible, but not every order sounds equally natural.

Not exactly, though they can overlap.

• レシピ = recipe
• 手順 = procedure / steps
• 料理の手順 = the cooking steps / the procedure for making the dish

So レシピ can refer to the recipe as a whole, while 手順 focuses specifically on the sequence of actions.

If you say:

• レシピを見ながら = while looking at the recipe
• 料理の手順を見ながら = while looking at the cooking steps

The second one puts more focus on the instructions/process rather than the recipe as a whole.