Soy Milk Hot Pot

Pleasing Asiatic Soy Milk Hot Pot instruction with napa nobble, mushrooms, and thinly sliced appropriation baked in a creamy and kickshaw soy concentrate stock.

Shabu Shabu and Sukiyaki are both rattling touristy and fine illustrious Japanese hot pot dishes external of Nippon.  Withal, there are numerous separate kinds of hot pot dishes that we also revel in Nippon including Kimchi Nabe.  Today I'd equivalent to present Soy River Hot Pot, or as we play it Tonyu Nabe.

What is Soy Concentrate Hot Pot (Tonyu Nabe)

As the sept of the instruction suggests, one of the key ingredients for this hot pot is soy river, which is old as the main flavoring to the control of dashi soup. Vegetables much as napa swipe, ivied vegetable vegetables, and thinly sliced appropriation are then intercalary to make in the hot pot and lordotic in the ponzu sauce to bask. Meant to be a shared activity where friends and folk interact together at the table to savor the saucer, you can gestate soy concentrate hot pot existence served at curd restaurants or ryokan (Altaic inns).

The stock has a really fragile flavor.  Due to the soy milk in the stock, the taste is naturally afters and creamy. When all the vegetables and meats are submerged in the broth, everything comes together resulting a healthy annular, appetising hot pot.  On the choose, a tangy Ponzu sauce is served for you to dip the burnt vegetables and meats for more syrupy, salt, and citrusy plain to the total have.

INGREDIENTS

• 0.8 lb thinly sliced pork loin (400 g) (Skip for vegetarian)
• 1 package enoki mushrooms
• 1 package shimeji mushrooms
• 4 shiitake mushrooms
• ¼  napa cabbage
• ½ bunch Mizuna (or spinach)
• 1 shungiku (Tong Ho/Garland Chrysanthemum) (edible chrysanthemums, in Chinese tong hao, or skip)
• 1 Negi/Long Green Onion (or leek)
• 1 green onion/scallion
• 1 medium firm tofu
• ½ daikon radish
• 1 carrot
• 1 gobo (burdock root)

Hot Pot Soup :

• 3 cups dashi (720 ml) (I use Awase dashi. Kombu dashi for vegetarian/vegan)
• ¼ cup sake (60 ml)
• ¼ cup mirin (60 ml)
• 2 cups unsweetened soy milk (480 ml) (microwave till it's warm)
• ¼ cup miso (4 Tbsp) (I use awase miso)
• 2 Tbsp white sesame seeds (roasted/toasted)
• kosher salt

Dipping Sauce :

• Ponzu

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Gather all the ingredients.
2. Hot Pot Soup: First we start making the soup and infuse with all the seasonings. In your donabe (earthenware pot) or other type of pot, add 3 cups (720 ml) dashi, ¼ cup (60 ml) sake and ¼ cup (60 ml) mirin. Cover and bring the soup to boil.
3. Once boiling, add 2 cups (480 ml) warm soy milk. On medium heat, slowly heat up until the soup almost boils. Keep the lid uncovered and stir once in a while. Meanwhile, grind 2 Tbsp. toasted sesame seeds in a pestle and mortar.
4. Once the soup is hot, add ¼ cup (4 Tbsp.) miso and ground sesame seeds.
5. Taste the soup and add kosher salt if you like it saltier. Depends on the brands and types of miso, the saltiness of your soup will vary. I recommend making the soup a little bit saltier since you'll add vegetables that will release water and dilute the soup. Turn off the heat and set aside. Keep it covered.
6. Hot Pot Ingredients: If your meat is not thinly sliced, you have to cut it thinly on your own. See how to do it here (picture is thinly sliced beef).
7. Cut off and discard the bottom of enoki mushrooms and shimeji mushrooms.
8. Cut off and discard the shiitake stem. If you like, make decorative cut on shiitake mushrooms (See how to do it here).
9. Cut napa cabbage into 2” (5 cm) pieces widthwise. Then cut into 2-3 pieces lengthwise on the thick and white bottom part of napa cabbage so that it'll be faster to cook.
10. Cut Mizuna (or spinach) and shungiku into 2” (5 cm) pieces.
11. Cut Tokyo negi (leek) into 1” (2.5 cm) thick pieces diagonally. Thinly slice green onion/scallion.
12. Cut the tofu block into 1” (2.5 cm) slices.
13. Using a vegetable peeler, peel the daikon and carrot thinly as if you are peeling their skin. You can cut these root vegetables into thinly rounds or quarters, but my family loves eating root vegetables in long paper-thin form.
14. Peel the gobo (burdock root) same way as daikon and carrot. Soak the thinly sliced gobo in water for 15 minutes to prevent them from changing color.
15. Put all the vegetables, mushrooms, and tofu in a platter.
16. Start cooking bottom white part of napa cabbage leaves, Tokyo negi, tofu, mushrooms, and root vegetables (daikon, carrot, gobo) over medium heat. Basically you don't want to put leafy vegetables that will become wilted too soon before other vegetables become tender. Don't put too many ingredients. You can save them for the next batch. Once the hot pot soup is close to boiling, turn down so that the hot pot soup will not overflow and curdle. You want to keep it hot, but not boil. You can either start serving food that's cooked, or add raw meat and leafy vegetable to cook. Make sure to add meat when the soup is hot. Skim any curdles floating on the soup. You can eat the curdle or discard. Pour ponzu sauce in a small bowl and add chopped green onion/scallion. Dip cooked meat and vegetables in ponzu sauce to enjoy! Add more ingredients to the pot as you eat.