How to cook stylin' sukiyaki.

Mission, how to cook sukiyaki すき焼き (researched 19 Jan 2014)

It's freezing tonight in Japan. OKey, I'll let you know how to cook sukiyaki "すき焼き”. I guess, you would have heard the word before.

However, the word sukiyaki is not only the tilte of popular song but the name of Japanese dish that is the best for this time of a year.

 In fact, the song "sukiyaki" was originally titled "ueomuitearukou" literally  means "let's walk as looking up way", sung by Kyu Sakamoto who died in a plane crash in 1985. Sakamoto was one of legendary singers of all time in the nation.

 However, I'll focus on the food aspect of sukiyaki to tell you how to cook it to  eat it in style.

ingredients

1, vegetables  bukchoi (Chinese cabbage)

                     leek

                     kikuna (if possible)

 

2, grilled tofu (if possible. Actually, any tofu is OK)

 

3, beef (thinly sliced)

 

4, chicken (optional)

 

5, udon noodles (optional)

6, egg

 

7, seasonings  soy sauce

                      mirin (sweet rice wine ) (if possible)

                      sake (rice wine)

                      sugar (substitute for mirin)

                      kelp stock (convenience product) (if possible)

 

Preparations

1, make "warishita" broth with the above seasonings.

The ratio of the broth is as below

 soy sauce 1:mirin (sweet rice wine) 0,5: rice sake(rice wine) 1 

 

   

2, chop all the vegetables, tofu, chicken and beef into a bite size.

 

3, put what ever you've prepared into a shallow pot

 

 

 

Cooking

1, heat the pot with full of ingredients into boiling

 

 

To eat

Raw egg is generally used as dipping sauce. (do you remember the movie "Rocky"? "Come on, you can do it champ!!!")

 

 

Over all

A big thing about sukiyaki is that it is cooked on the dining table as the people eat. There fore, preparations are all about it.

 

Conclusion

Sukiyaki is popularly eaten during the winter. The people are usually going bananas having it with rice wine or beer. However enjoying sukiyaki on lovely "kotatsu" keeps you warm the rest of winter.

 

 

Tips

Beer can be used as adding water in case the pot dries out, beer gets it a few more kicks. (I'd recommend you kids this to boost the party.)