Vegetable Nabe
I lived number of years in Japan and love eating Nihon-no ryori (Japanese dishes). Japanese dishes are mainly vegetables and seafood. Most popular dish in Winter is Nabe. There are many types of Nabe and I cook some simple ones at home. It would be difficult for me to produce real recipe, so I copied one from Internet:
Vegetable Nabe
1 pound firm tofu, pressed,
drained and cubed
1 head napa cabbage
cut into 2 inch pieces
4 creamer or small red boiler potato, pre-cooked
1 onion, cut into large dice
4 green onions
cut into 3 inch pieces
6 large fresh shiitake mushrooms
1 small ginger piece, peeled and sliced
1 small japanese eggplant cut into 4 pieces
2 tablespoons white miso
1 peeled carrot cut thinly on a diagonal
1 cup cooked rye or wheat berries
4 cups vegetable or vegetable broth
salt and pepper, to taste
soy, to taste
In a pot that you can cook and serve in, arrange all of the vegetables in order of longest cooking time, to the shortest time to cook, i.e., potatoes, carrots, onion, then eggplant and cabbage, mushrooms, ginger and green onion. Place all vegetables and grains and tofu in the pot and cover over the vegetables with broth until it is covering the first two inches from the bottom. Slowly bring the pot up to a boil and continue to simmer until the vegetables are tender about 6 minutes. At this point you can add the miso in to taste and serve family style.
Vegetable Nabe
1 pound firm tofu, pressed,
drained and cubed
1 head napa cabbage
cut into 2 inch pieces
4 creamer or small red boiler potato, pre-cooked
1 onion, cut into large dice
4 green onions
cut into 3 inch pieces
6 large fresh shiitake mushrooms
1 small ginger piece, peeled and sliced
1 small japanese eggplant cut into 4 pieces
2 tablespoons white miso
1 peeled carrot cut thinly on a diagonal
1 cup cooked rye or wheat berries
4 cups vegetable or vegetable broth
salt and pepper, to taste
soy, to taste
In a pot that you can cook and serve in, arrange all of the vegetables in order of longest cooking time, to the shortest time to cook, i.e., potatoes, carrots, onion, then eggplant and cabbage, mushrooms, ginger and green onion. Place all vegetables and grains and tofu in the pot and cover over the vegetables with broth until it is covering the first two inches from the bottom. Slowly bring the pot up to a boil and continue to simmer until the vegetables are tender about 6 minutes. At this point you can add the miso in to taste and serve family style.
