Chicken Sukiyaki

Total Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups dashi stock (from dry dashi granules mixed with water is fine)
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/2 cup mirin
• 1/2 cup sake
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 burdock root (or parsnip) or 2 carrots (or parsnip)
• 2 -3 chicken legs, including thigh (boned and cut into bite size pieces)
• 8 shiitake mushrooms, stems removed and cut in half on angle
• 1 cake tofu, cut into 8 pieces (firm or regular)
• 1 cake konnyaku, sliced very thinly
• 4 scallions, sliced on an angle into 2 inch pieces
• 1/2 napa cabbage, cut into bite size pieces
• 2 bunches mitsuba, cut into 2 inch pieces or 4 cups baby spinach
• 1 lb fresh-frozen ramen noodles (save soup packets for other use) or 2 (8 ounce) packages ramen noodles, cooked (save soup packets for other use)

Recipe

• 1 to make the sukiyaki sauce:.
• 2 combine all the ingredients in a saucepan and bring to a boil. cook for about 1 minute and remove from heat and set aside.
• 3 to make sukiyaki:.
• 4 scrape the peel off burdock. cut the burdock like you are sharpening the end of a pencil to produce thin shavings or use a peeler and shave into 2 inch pieces. soak the shavings in a bowl of water with a bit of vinegar (about 1-2 tsp) to stop the discoloration. set aside.
• 5 heat a large frying pan with at least 2 1/2 inch sides or use donabe (japanese clay pot already treated previously) and add 2 t oil.
• 6 add the burdock and chicken in separate and neat bunches and brown for 2 minutes. add the shiitake, tofu, and konnyaku and cook for 2 minutes more. again, keep all separate without mixing them together.
• 7 pour in the sukiyaki soup stock just enough to cover halfway up the ingredients and spoon the sauce over all ingredients. do not overfill and cover.
• 8 as soon as the liquid boil, reduce the heat to medium and cook for about 4-5 minutes. uncover and add scallions, napa cabbage, and mitsuba or baby spinach and cook for about 2 minutes. add more sukiyaki sauce and spoon the sauce over each ingredients often. do not mix ingredients together and serve.
• 9 after most of the ingredients are consumed, bring the sauce to boil again and add the ramen noodles. heat the noodles and serve in individual bowls.