Grandma-Style Chikuzen-ni with Chikuwa For New Years

Name: Grandma-Style Chikuzen-ni with Chikuwa For New Years
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 400 grams Satoimo (taro root); 1 Burdock root; 1 Carrot; 150 grams Lotus root; 4 Dried shiitake mushrooms; 3 Chikuwa; 600 ml Dashi stock; 40 ml Soy sauce; 1 tbsp Sugar; 1/2 tbsp Sake; 1 Salt

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I loved my grandma's simmered dishes. This is a well-flavored and browned dish that is simply made by simmering for a long time.
I like light-flavored simmered dishes too, but to replicate my grandma's simmered dishes you need to add a lot of soy sauce.

Don't touch the contents of the pot until just before the simmering is finished.
Even when it's done, it tastes better after it's been allowed to cool down once, which lets the flavors blend together. (This may be a personal preference?)
If the scum bothers you, take it off with paper towel. Recipe by Mihomiho mama recipes

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Ingredients

400 gramsSatoimo (taro root)
1Burdock root
1Carrot
150 gramsLotus root
4Dried shiitake mushrooms
3Chikuwa
600 mlDashi stock
40 mlSoy sauce
1 tbspSugar
1/2 tbspSake
1Salt

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Steps

1

Rehydrate the shiitake mushrooms in water.
2

Make a simple dashi stock. Put a dashi pack in a container, and add 600 ml of boiling water. Leave as-is while you prepare the vegetables.
3

Peel lotus root, cut to bite-size pieces, and soak.
4

Peel the carrot and chop into chunks.
5

Shave the peel off the burdock root.
6

Cut and soak.
7

Cut the chikuwa too. You can substitute the chikuwa with sashimi-grade scallops for an even tastier dish.
8

Cut the rehydrated shiitake mushrooms. Here, I just quartered them.
9

Now the dashi stock is ready. I added konbu seaweed to this one.
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10

Put the burdock root, carrot, lotus root, satoimo, and chikuwa in a pot in that order.
11

Pour the dashi stock from Step 9 in as well as the sake, and heat. Add about 1/2 cup (100 ml) of the shiitake mushroom soaking liquid, too.
12

Add the sugar. I used Lakanto artificial sweetener which I found when looking for my beet sugar. Regular sugar is fine, too.
13

After a while, it will come to a boil and scum will rise to the surface.
14

I'm lazy, so I just absorb the scum with paper towels....
15

...and swab it off.
16

Add the soy sauce.
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From here it takes about 30 minutes or so. Simmer over low heat until there's just a little liquid left in the pan.
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Add a little salt at the end to bring the flavors together. Stir up the bottom ingredients and it's ready.