Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, delicious chicken stew with root vegetables for new year's. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. This is a traditional stew called Chikzen-ni, and is often served in a Japanese New Year meal, and one of my favorite New Year dishes since I was a child. The root vegetables such as burdock, lotus, carrot and sato-imo (taro) are cooked with konnyaku (yam jelly), dry shiitake, and chicken in dashi, and seasoned with soy sauce and black sugar. Stir in pressed garlic and vinegar; season with salt and pepper.
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To begin 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make Delicious Chicken Stew with Root Vegetables for New Year's:
- Make ready 1/2 Kintoki Carrot
- Make ready 1/2 Burdock root
- Make ready 1/2 Lotus root
- Get 1/2 block Konnyaku
- Make ready 1 Plum blossom-shaped wheat gluten
- Get 2 Taro root potatoes (2 small)
- Prepare For the broth:
- Prepare 800 ml Dashi stock
- Make ready 200 ml Juice from the rehydrated shiitake mushrooms
- Get 3 tbsp Usukuchi soy sauce
- Get 4 tbsp Sake
- Prepare 2 tbsp Raw cane sugar
- Make ready 4 tbsp Mirin
- Prepare 1 pinch Salt
Add the chicken and vegetables to the pot of broth along with the potatoes, Italian seasoning, thyme sprigs and bay leaf. Season the stew with salt and pepper to taste. Bring the stew to a simmer. Heat oil in a large saucepan and fry the chicken on both sides until lightly tanned.
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.
Bring the stew to a simmer. Heat oil in a large saucepan and fry the chicken on both sides until lightly tanned. Remove the meat and if necessary, add a little oil and fry the chopped onion, then add the carrots and the cut into small pieces peppers. Once tender, pour in the tomato puree. A delicious and nutritious stew perfect for fall!
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