Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Nimono (煮物), Traditional Japanese Root Vegetable Dish

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

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.

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