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Hearty Oden From Homemade Dashi - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Hearty Oden From Homemade Dashi.
Here is a recipe for a hearty oden where we also make dashi (Japanese soup stock). There is a lot of preparation for oden, such as pre-boiling daikon radish and removing the smell of konjac, but in addition to that, by also making dashi it makes it a finer dish. It is very delicious, You should definitely give it a try!
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Cook time

80 minutes

Ingredients
4 servings

  • Daikon radish
    500 g
  • Water
    as needed
  • Boiled egg
    4
  • Konjac (Konnyaku)
    100 g
  • Hot water
    as needed
  • Deep-fried thick tofu (Atsuage)
    1 sheets
  • Dashi
  • Water
    800 ml
  • Kelp (Kombu)
    8 g
  • bonito flakes
    8 g
  • (A)Cooking sake
    200 ml
  • (A)Light soy sauce
    2 tbsp
  • (A)Japanese sweet cooking wine (Mirin)
    2 tbsp
  • (A)Sugar
    2 tsp

How to make

  1. Prepare. Peel the skin of the daikon radish.
  2. 1. Wipe off the dirt on the surface of the kelp (kombu) with a wet paper towel, put it in water (one that was prepared for dashi) and leave it for 30 minutes.
  3. 2. Cut daikon radish into a 0.8-inch wide round slices, cut a notch on the surface in a 0.2-inch wide grid, put it in a pot with water, and boil for 20 minutes over medium heat until bamboo skewer sticks in, then drain.
  4. 3. Cut konjac into half horizontally, cut them diagonally (make a triabgle) and cut a 5mm wide grid notch on the surface. Put it in a pot with boiling water and boil according to the instructions on the package. Once that's done, drain the water and remove the scum.
  5. 4. Cut deep-fried thick tofu (atsuage) into half horizontally and cut diagonally (make a triangle).
  6. 5. Move the kelp and water from Step 1 to a separate pot and heat over medium heat until right before the water boils.
  7. 6. Take out the kelp, bring it to a boil over medium heat, turn off the heat, add the bonito flakes, leave for 2 minutes and strain.
  8. 7. Add the dashi soup made in Step 6 and ingredient (A) to the same pot and bring to a boil, then add ingredients from Step 2, 3 and boiled eggs and simmer over medium heat for 30 minutes until the flavors are absorbed.
  9. 8. Add the fried tofu from Step 4 and bring to a boil again. Remove from heat, serve in a bowl and it is done!

Tips for cooking

You can make a cut on the surface of the daikon radishes and konjac so that the flavor gets absorbed faster. If you don't have light soy sauce, you can also use regular soy sauce instead.

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