How To: Make Vegetable Tofu Nimono (Japanese Tofu Stew)

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Ingredients for Vegetable Tofu Nimono

(serves 3)

• 100g carrot (3.53 oz)
• 100g boiled bamboo shoot (3.53 oz)
• 30g kombu kelp that was used for making dashi stock (1.06 oz)
• 100g renkon - lotus root (3.53 oz)
• 200g satoimo potatoes (0.441 lb)
• 100g konnyaku - konjac (3.53 oz)
• 75g gobo - edible burdock (2.66 oz)
• 100g atsuage - deep-fried tofu (3.53 oz)
• snap peas
• 4 dried shiitake mushrooms

• 400cc dashi stock (1.69 u.s. cup)
• shiitake liquid & pre-made dashi stock*

* See our "How to Make Ozoni" video or use 1 tbs granulated dashi + water

• 2 Tbsp sugar
• 2 Tbsp sake
• 2 Tbsp soy sauce
• 2 Tbsp mirin

About Music:

• Frederic Chopin - Valse in D-flat major
• "Minute Waltz" - Op. 64 No. 1 Play by Muriel Nguyen Xuan, recording by Stephane Magnenat