Nimono (煮物), Traditional Japanese Root Vegetable Dish
Nimono (煮物), Traditional Japanese Root Vegetable Dish

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Cut meat into thin bite size slices. Grab a large pot that will fit everything in. In that pot, on medium heat and with a little bit of oil, cook the sliced meat.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nimono (煮物), traditional japanese root vegetable dish using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Nimono (煮物), Traditional Japanese Root Vegetable Dish:
  1. Prepare Meat (choose one)
  2. Get Chicken thigh, thinly sliced
  3. Take Pork chop, thinly sliced
  4. Take No meat is fine too!
  5. Make ready Vegetables
  6. Take 2 carrots
  7. Prepare 4 potatoes
  8. Take 1 ft stick burdock root (optional but would be nice to have)
  9. Make ready 8 shiitake mushrooms (optional)
  10. Take 100 g lotus root (optional but would be nice to have)
  11. Make ready 130 g konjac (optional because it’s hard to find outside of Japan!)
  12. Prepare Soup (but it’s not a soup)
  13. Prepare 1-2 cups water
  14. Get 1/4 cup sake
  15. Prepare 3 tbsp soy sauce
  16. Get 1 tbsp salt
  17. Get 5 tbsp sugar
  18. Get 3 tbsp hondashi powder
  19. Make ready 2 tbsp chicken broth powder (optional)
  20. Take 3 tsp mirin (optional)

She always used "whatever was in the fridge" but I know. Nimono is a simmered dish in Japanese cuisine. A nimono generally consists of a base ingredient simmered in shiru stock flavored with sake, soy sauce, and a small amount of sweetening. Nimono is a simmered dish in Japanese cuisine.

Instructions to make Nimono (煮物), Traditional Japanese Root Vegetable Dish:
  1. Cut all vegetables into bite size pieces. The potatoes are okay being a tiny bit bigger than the rest of the vegetables.
  2. Cut meat into thin bite size slices. Grab a large pot that will fit everything in. In that pot, on medium heat and with a little bit of oil, cook the sliced meat.
  3. Once the meat is cooked, throw all of the vegetables and water into the pot. Rise the heat to high.
  4. We don’t need that much water because we aren’t boiling the vegetables, we will be simmering/steaming them. In the hot water, add in all the seasonings like soy sauce, sugar, sake, etc.
  5. Give the pot a toss to mix everything evenly. Then, close the lid keep the heat on high. The vegetables are only simmering on the bottom where it is in contact with the liquid, so use something like a large wooden spoon to mix everything around, but not too vigorously or else the vegetables will begin to crumble and break.
  6. After some time, the vegetables will absorb the liquid and a lot of it will also be evaporated. When you notice that the liquid is getting low, add about half a cup of water again, to continue simmering the dish.
  7. Once all the vegetables are super soft (potatoes get sliced by a wooden spoon with ease), the dish is ready!
  8. Serve, and enjoy.

A nimono generally consists of a base ingredient simmered in shiru stock flavored with sake, soy sauce, and a small amount of sweetening. Here is how you cook that. This lesson is about making nimono (煮物) or stewed dishes, while we make a simple stewed or simmered winter vegetable dish. Nimono is one of the most popular cooking techniques in Japan. It's a simple, rustic preparation using for fish, vegetables, or meat simmered in broth that is primarily used in home-style cooking.

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