How To Make Japanese Shabu Shabu (Chinese Hotpot)

I love Shabu Shabu, a Japanese dish that is cooked and eaten at the table. It's a healthy one-pot dish that involves cooking thin pieces of meat and/or vegetables in broth and dipping them in a variety of tasty sauces. When cooked at the table, it's a very sociable experience.

This lens will show you how to make Shabu Shabu at home to enjoy with your family and friends. It's an easy and entertaining way to share a meal.

If you don't want to prepare this at home, Check with your local Japanese or Chinese restaurants to see if they offer this option.

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Using healthy, easy-to-find ingredients such as "seafood, poultry, greens, roots, mushrooms, and noodles, these classic one-pot dishes require minimal fuss and preparation,"

It’s popular with those who like to read books, magazines and newspapers but what about us cooks? A Kindle provides a great way to streamline the way you cook and use recipes.

You might want to use a stand with it while cooking.

Wikipedia provides the following information about Shabu Shabu. "The dish is prepared by submerging a very thin slice of meat or a piece of vegetable in a pot of boiling water or dashi (broth) made with kombu (kelp) and swishing it back and forth several times. " Shabu Shabu simply means Swish Swish - which is what you do when cooking this food.

Cooked meat and vegetables are usually dipped in ponzu or "goma" (sesame seed) sauce before eating, and served with a bowl of steamed white rice. I have featured several special dishes on this pages that will add to the pleasure of the dipping sauce.

"Once the meat and vegetables have been eaten, leftover broth from the pot is customarily combined with the remaining rice, and the resulting soup is usually eaten last."

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Learn to create Asian dshes with this wonderful Ming cookbook.

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This video uses foods that you may not be familiar with and may not be able to find locally, but you will see how easy this dish is to make.

Another video by "cookingwithdog".

Click here for the Shabu Shabu Ingredients mentioned in the video.

You will enjoy the experience of Shabu Shabu with these special items.

Another video from "cookingwithdog".

Click here for Sukiyaki Ingredients mentioned in this video.

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Using these special dishes for you sauces will make your meal more fun..

This book presents an intriguing mixture of Japanese country cooking, folk tradition, and the author's memories of growing up in Japan. It is a book to use and treasure for its traditional Japanese cooking methods. It covers cooking methods and techniques for chopping vegetables, making udon and soba noodles, making tofu and using various tofu products, and making rich soup stocks.

Favorite Japanese Dishes is designed to introduce simple ways to make some of the worlds most interesting and delicious Japanese cuisines.

With the description of ingredients, preparation and instructions and 600 illustrations, to support the step-by-step processes, you can say that this is the very book that embodies the motto "Quick & Easy."

These bowls can be used for rice or soup.

Of course you will need these chopstick rests!