Gomoku Gohan

Author: Shannon Tomioka

Recipe type: Main Dish, Chicken, Rice

Cuisine: Japanese

Serves: 3

Here’s as easy recipe if your not in the mood to eat very heavy. Japanese recipe called “Gomoku Gohan”. (Chicken with mixed vegetables and rice)

Ingredients

1½ cups rice (cleaned and drained)
3 oz chicken thighs
2-inch piece of carrot
⅓ gobou (burdock)
2 dried shiitake mushrooms
1 package konnyaku strips (arum root jelly)
1 cup dashi or chicken broth
☆ 1½ tsp sugar
☆ 2 tbls plus 1 teaspoon sake
☆ 1½ tbls soy sauce ( preferably: usukuchi shoyu or light soy sauce)
☆ ½ tsp salt
☆ mitsuba or other leafy green herb, for garnish

Instructions

Put the chicken in a bowl, sprinkle with 1 teaspoon sake and let stand while you prepare the other ingredients.
Put the mushrooms in a small bowl and cover with 1 cup water to soften. Cut the carrot into matchstick-sized pieces.
Scrape the gobou with the back of a knife under running water to clean it, then cut into thin shavings. Rinse if desired.
Drain the mushrooms, reserving ½ cup of the soaking water, then remove the stems and cut into strips. Pour the stock and reserved mushroom-soaking water in a medium-size pot and add the mushrooms, carrots, gobou, konnyaku and chicken (with sake and accumulated juices).
When it begins to simmer, add the sugar and sake and continue cooking for 1 or 2 minutes. Add the soy sauce and salt and simmer for another minute.
Drain the ingredients into a sieve over a bowl, keeping the solids and liquids separate. Put the washed rice in a rice cooker or pot and add the solid ingredients. Measure the strained liquid; add water or pour off some of the liquid so it measures 1½ cups. (Use slightly more liquid if you are cooking in a pot rather than a rice cooker.) Pour the liquid into the rice cooker or pot and cook as usual. There you have it, serve in a bowl or plate with a toss salad and miso soup. Have fun and we will see you in the next blog. Special thanks to Maiko chan for submitting this recipe.

Notes

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