Simple Way to Prepare Ultimate Oden: Japanese One-Pot Dish

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have Oden: Japanese One-Pot Dish using 17 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Oden is a hearty Japanese one-pot dish that’s perfect for the cold weather. It’s an easy recipe and the bulk of the work is in prepping all the ingredients before cooking. Since Taiwan was under Japanese rule before 1945 for about 50 years, oden was introduced to the Taiwanese during this time period. In Taiwan, it is known as guandongzhu (關東煮), tianbula (甜不辣) or hellun (黑輪) and often found at the night market. Ingredients that go into oden varies between regions and also households. Oden is often sold in food carts, izakayas, convenience store chains, or dedicated oden restaurants. It is usually considered winter food but many people, and restaurants or food carts, serve oden year-round. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkM9sFEfueQ

Ingredients and spices that need to be Make ready to make Oden: Japanese One-Pot Dish:

1. 1 medium daikon
2. 1 medium carrot
3. shiitake mushroom
4. various types of fish cake
5. 7 cups dashi
6. 2 tablespoon soy sauce
7. 1 tablespoon mirin
8. 2 tablespoon sake
9. 1/2 teaspoon Sugar
10. salt to taste
11. 2 – 4 cabbage rolls
12. 1 block konjac
13. Oden Dipping Sauce
14. 3 tablespoon Ketchup
15. 1 tablespoon miso
16. 1 tablespoon dashi
17. 1 teaspoon or more wasabi to your liking

Instructions to make to make Oden: Japanese One-Pot Dish

1. To make dashi stock, please refer to this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppi5498XeDE&t=3s) for step-by-step instruction. After you make the dashi, don’t throw away the kombu. You can use them to make the kombu tie. Just cut them into thin strips and tie a knot in the middle.
2. You can also use cabbage rolls in oden. (Recipe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmnnuHRxE8g&t=0s)
3. If you use dried shiitake mushrooms in your oden, reconstitute the mushrooms before using them.
4. To prepare the konjac cake, first, slid shallowly on both the top and bottom side. Next, cut the konjac cake into smaller pieces. After that, boil the konjac cake for 2 minutes to get rid of the konjac smell. Take out and set aside.
5. Boil the eggs for 10 minutes on low heat. When the time is up, take the eggs out and chill in an ice bath. After the eggs are cool off, peel the shell. Gently poke holes around the eggs and then set them aside.
6. With the daikon and carrot, peel off the skin and cut into about 1″ thick. Make a small slid in the middle to help to absorb the flavors. Next, boil the carrot and daikon on medium-high heat for 10 minutes. Take out and set aside.
7. To make the tofu mochi pouches, you’ll need to get the aburrage, the Japanese fried tofu pouches and the kirin mochi. Cut the fried tofu pouches in half. Cut the kirin mochi in quarters. Next, stuff the kirin mochi in the tofu pouch and insert a toothpick to close it off.
8. If you can find the fish cake rolls that are hollow in the middle, insert a stalk of green onion into the fish cake roll. Cut off the excess on both ends. Then cut the fish cake into smaller pieces.
9. With other premade fish cakes you can find in the supermarket, simply cut them into smaller sizes. Any shapes that you prefer.
10. To make the oden dipping sauce, in a clean bowl, add 1 tbsp of miso, 3 tbsp of ketchup, and 1 tbsp dashi. If you want to make your sauce spicy, you can add 1 tsp of wasabi and mix well.
11. In a clean pot, add 7 cups of dashi. Next, add the cabbage rolls, daikon, carrot, konjac cake, hard-boiled egg, and shiitake mushroom. The rule is to put the root vegetables and the ingredients that would take longer to cook and absorb the flavor first.
12. Next, add 2 tbsp of soy sauce, 1 tbsp of mirin, 2 tbsp of sake and 1/2 tsp of sugar. Bring it to a boil
13. When the broth starts to boil, cover with a lid and adjust the heat to medium-high and boil for 10 minutes.
14. After 10 minutes, add the various fish cakes that you have. Cover again and boil for another 5 minutes.
15. After 5 minutes, add the kombu tie and cook for 5 more minutes. When the time is up, you’re done.
16. Transfer your oden into a large serving bowl, or a donabe pot if you have one. And serve with the oden dipping sauce. You can also cook oden directly in a donabe pot. Just make sure to adjust the amount of ingredients to the size of your donabe pot

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