Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, delicious chicken stew with root vegetables for new year's. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Delicious Chicken Stew with Root Vegetables for New Year's is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Delicious Chicken Stew with Root Vegetables for New Year's is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook delicious chicken stew with root vegetables for new year's using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Delicious Chicken Stew with Root Vegetables for New Year's:
- Take 1/2 Kintoki Carrot
- Get 1/2 Burdock root
- Get 1/2 Lotus root
- Take 1/2 block Konnyaku
- Take 1 Plum blossom-shaped wheat gluten
- Take 2 Taro root potatoes (2 small)
- Make ready For the broth:
- Make ready 800 ml Dashi stock
- Prepare 200 ml Juice from the rehydrated shiitake mushrooms
- Prepare 3 tbsp Usukuchi soy sauce
- Take 4 tbsp Sake
- Get 2 tbsp Raw cane sugar
- Make ready 4 tbsp Mirin
- Take 1 pinch Salt
Instructions to make Delicious Chicken Stew with Root Vegetables for New Year's:
- Rehydrate the shiitake mushrooms in lukewarm water, cut off the stems, and carve a decorative cross in the tops. Cut the lotus root into a decorative pattern. Peel the skin of the burdock root, cut diagonally, and rinse in water.
- Carve the carrot slices into plum blossoms, and make decorative cuts to form the petals. They are still quite pretty without doing this.
- Cut the konnyaku block into 5-mm thin strips, make a slit down the center, and flip one end through.
- Combine all of the ingredients in a pot aside from the mirin, carrot, and plum blossom-shaped wheat gluten, and stew until you can easily poke a skewer through the vegetables. Add the mirin, carrots, and plum blossom-shaped wheat gluten, stew for 5 minutes until it produces a glaze, and it is done.
- I made this for the osechi I served for New Year's 2013.
How to Elevate Your Mood with Food
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