Thursday, January 20, 2011

Donabe one pot dish...Power Sake-kasu Nabe


It's the high-season for nabe-mono (hot pot) right now, although I like doing hot pot any time of the year (even in the summertime!).


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Here's my beautiful classic-style donabe, "Yu Kizeto". It's a unique "handleless" donabe (I like to call it UFO donabe) and very light weight.

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I made a very popular winter hot pot, "Sake-kasu Nabe". The broth is made with dashi broth and sake lees ("sake kasu"), so the aroma is so rich and you can really smell "sake" in it. To cook in the broth, I picked up some cod, kabu (Japanese turnip), mushrooms, etc.


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Donabe was set on a table-top stove. Ingredients were cooked in the broth. In a short time, everything was cooked and ready. The aroma was even more gorgeous.


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Such a balanced and flavorful bowl of stew. I also cooked moch and cheese stuffed abura-age (fried tofu pouch). It was so great.


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Since I had some extra Chinese noodles in the fridge, I cooked them in the broth as a "shime" (end of the meal) course. So delightful.

I posted the recipe on toiro's website. Hope you will try this dish.

Happy donabe life.