Daikon no nimono

This is a great way to eat vegetables and even if you have a bowl full, it’s only about 120 kcal. I eat this for my fasting diet day.

Daikon no nimono 

(Daikon radish and other vegetable cooked in stock) for four

Ingredients:

300g daikon radish

100g carrot

100g shirataki

100g thinly sliced beef or pork
(you can get it at Japanese or Chinese grocer
 in frozen meat section
1tsp hondashi (soup stock)

2 stalks spring onion

5-6 dried shiitake

250-300ml water
(just enough to cover all ingredients)

Flavouring A:

• 1tbs sake
• 2-3tbs soy sauce
• 2tbs mirin
• 250ml water

Method:

1. Cut daikon 2-3cm thickness (see pic 1). Trim the skin generously (see pic2).
2. Cut carrot in rangiri. Wash and drain shirataki in a strainer and leave them aside.
3. Soak shiitake in warm to hot water in a deep bowl for about ½ hour (see pic 3).
   Put a lid on, to make sure shiitake is soaked properly (see pic4).
4. Take shiitake out of the bowl and squeeze liquid out. Slice in half. Do not throw away the water in which shiitake was soaked.
5. Place daikon, carrots, shiratake in a medium to large pot (choose a pot in which all the ingredients fit in nicely. If you have to stack daikon on top of each other, you have chosen a pot, which is too small. Add water and fish stock to the pot and the water in which the shiitake was soaked with (it gives it extra flavour) (see pic 5).
6. Turn the heat on high until boiling. Once it has boiled, turn the heat down then add beef. Cook about 20 minutes.
7. Do shake the pot from time to time. Then remove the lid and replace with use an otoshibuta. It sits on the food in the pot (see pic6). Cook for a further 30 minutes until soup is reduced by half.
8. Serve in a bowl and sprinkle with chopped onion.

1. Cut daikon

2. Skin the daikon

3. Soak shiitake

4. Put a lid on

5. Ingredients are in the pot

6. Put otoshibuta

Tip1: if you don’t have a otoshibuta, 
you can make it with baking
paper or aluminium foil.   
(Left) 








Tip2: When you choose daikon, pick the one has green neck.
It is sweeter compared to the ones has not.