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

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Nimono (煮物) 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. The nimono is simmered in the shiru over a period of time until the liquid is absorbed into the base.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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. Prepare Chicken thigh, thinly sliced
  3. Make ready Pork chop, thinly sliced
  4. Get No meat is fine too!
  5. Get Vegetables
  6. Get 2 carrots
  7. Get 4 potatoes
  8. Get 1 ft stick burdock root (optional but would be nice to have)
  9. Get 8 shiitake mushrooms (optional)
  10. Get 100 g lotus root (optional but would be nice to have)
  11. Take 130 g konjac (optional because it’s hard to find outside of Japan!)
  12. Make ready Soup (but it’s not a soup)
  13. Get 1-2 cups water
  14. Make ready 1/4 cup sake
  15. Take 3 tbsp soy sauce
  16. Prepare 1 tbsp salt
  17. Take 5 tbsp sugar
  18. Prepare 3 tbsp hondashi powder
  19. Get 2 tbsp chicken broth powder (optional)
  20. Take 3 tsp mirin (optional)

This nimono, or braised root vegetable stew, is the perfect way to use up the last of your winter C. Andrew This cooks them more evenly and quickly than a traditional pot lid. You can buy a traditional wooden otoshibuta, or a cute. Chikuzenni is a classic Japanese nimono dish cooked with chicken, shitake mushrooms, lotus root, konnyaku, taro, and burdock root in a savory dashi stock.

Steps 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.

Typically chicken and root vegetables are sautéd in oil first, then they are simmered in umami-rich dashi broth and seasonings until ingredients. Nimono is also the principal way of preparing and serving vegetables as well as one of the most popular ways of preparing fish. Some of the most famous nimono dishes include nizakana or nitsuke Niboshi dashi or iriko dashi is a traditional Japanese stock. It's made by boiling dried baby. Daikon is a very popular and versatile Japanese vegetable.

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