Menu Taste and Personal Experience:
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| Oden |
The hot and delicious soup makes it a perfect choice to make you warm in a chilly weather. It is best enjoyed together with families or friends because we all will be sharing the same pot. This of course will create a closer and relaxing atmosphere while enjoying this beautiful and delightful dish.
Menu Description:
Oden is a Japanese stewed dish which usually consists of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon radish, konnyaku, and processed fish cakes. The soup base a soy flavoured dashi (bonito) broth. Ingredients and broth/stocks used may vary according to region and between each household.
Oden is often sold from food carts, and most Japanese convenience stores have simmering oden pots in winter. Many different kinds of oden are sold, with single-ingredient varieties as cheap as 100 yen.
Varieties of oden ingredients
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| Varieties of Oden Ingredients |
- Assorted fishcake products
- Various surimi/grounded meat products, eg: meatball
- Beef tendons
- Octopus
- Boiled eggs
- Chikuwabu - gluten tubes.
- Ito konnyaku
- Konnyaku
- Tofu
- Ganmodoki – fried tofu fritter with vegetables fillings
- Atsuage – deep fried tofu
- Kinchaku/fukuro – fried tofu pouch/bag with fillings (usually mochi or egg)
- Daikon - Radish
- Konbu – seaweed/kelp
- Carrot
- Shiitake Mushroom
- Kabocha - Japanese winter pumpkin/squash
- Cabbage roll
- Potato
Menu Ingredients:
- 1/2 daikon radish, peeled and sliced into 1/4 inch thick rounds
- 4 shiitake mushrooms
- 2 carrots, peeled and chopped roughly
Dashi Stock - 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into halves
- 4 boiled eggs, peeled
- 1 konnyaku, cut into large triangles
- 2 atsuage, cut into large triangles
- 4 ganmodoki
- 6-10 assorted fishcakes as desired
- 4-6 surimi products as desired
Soup base
· 3 - 4 Tbsp of soy sauce
· 2 Tbsp of mirin or sake
· 1 tsp of sugar
· 1 tsp of salt
· 4 cups dashi soup stock (or 2 dashi pouches and 6 cups of water)
· 6-inch konbu,
Menu Directions:
- Put 4 cups of dashi soup stock in a large pot.
- Add konbu, bring to boil and turn down the heat to low.
- Take out the konbu, cut into 1 inch wide strips and make a knot. Put the knotted konbu back to the soup.
- Place the main ingredients into the pot
- Add soy sauce, sake/mirin, salt, and sugar and simmer for 1 hour. You can add more of the soup base ingredients to achieve the desired soup taste.
- Serve
Menu Related Videos:
How to make oden
Oden Feast
Menu Sources and References:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/oden (GNU Free Documentation License)
