Oden Recipe

Oden is a Japanese one-pot dish in which ingredients are slowly simmered in soy sauce based soup. It's a typical Japanese winter dish.
Japanese One-pot Dishes

Ingredients:

• 1/3 daikon radish, peeled and 3/4 inch thick rounds
• 2 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into halves
• 4 boiled eggs, peeled
• 1 konnyaku (transparent yam starch cake), cut into large triangles
• 2 atsuage (deep fried tofu), blanched and cut into large triangles
• 4 ganmodoki (tofu fritters), blanched
• 2 or 4 fish paste cakes, such as chikuwa and satsumaage, cut into large chunks
• 4 musubi-kombu (knotted kelp)
• 4 - 5 Tbsps of soy sauce
• 2 Tbsps of sake (Japanese rice wine)
• 1 tsp of sugar
• *You may use oden seasoning sold at Asian stores instead of using sake, soy sauce, and sugar.

Preparation:

Put 4 cups of dashi soup stock in a large pot or donabe pot. Add sake, soy sauce, and sugar in the soup. Place ingredients in the pot. Bring to a boil and turn down the heat to low and simmer for 40-60 minutes. Add dashi soup stock and soy sauce as needed.

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