Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, my family's oden hot pot. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

My Family's Oden Hot Pot is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. My Family's Oden Hot Pot is something that I have loved my entire life.

Our family's oden is filled with lots of ingredients, like this. Round the edges of the daikon radish and score it crosswise. Peel the potato skins and soak in water. Pour boiling water over the atsuage to drain excess oil.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my family's oden hot pot using 22 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make My Family's Oden Hot Pot:

1. Take 4 Eggs
2. Prepare 4 Wiener sausages
3. Make ready 1 Chicken wings
4. Make ready 1 Konnyaku
5. Prepare 1 Daikon radish
6. Make ready 1 Mochi kinchaku
7. Get 1 Atsuage
8. Get 1 Meatballs
9. Get Your favorite fish cakes
10. Take 1 Chikuwa
11. Get 1 Hiraten flat fish cakes
12. Make ready 1 Fried fish cake with burdock root
13. Make ready 1 Tri-coloured fish cake balls
14. Make ready Oden soup
15. Get 1000 ml Water
16. Make ready 3 tbsp Usukuchi soy sauce
17. Take 2 tbsp Sugar
18. Take 2 tbsp Mirin
19. Make ready 3 tbsp Sake
20. Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt
21. Take 2 Japanese dashi stock powder sachets
22. Prepare 1 (to taste)! Love

Winter is the season for oden! With a pressure cooker, the beef tendons (or chicken wings) are so tender and soft. The resulting soup is so tasty. Cooked octopus is also delicious in this hot pot.

Instructions to make My Family's Oden Hot Pot:

1. Boil the eggs and peel the shells.
2. Slice the daikon radish to 3 cm and round off the edges. Make crisscross incisions on the surface (for the soup to absorb easily).
3. Transfer the daikon to a plate and sprinkle water over with your hand. Cover with cling film loosely and microwave for 8 minutes (this process is for parboiling).
4. Make rough incisions with a fork on the surface of konnyaku, following "Yusu's" instructions. She's a genius.
5. Punch the konnyaku surface with your fist (to soften and let it absorb more soup). Do not punch too far though.
6. Cut the konnyaku like this and blanch quickly (to get rid of its particular smell).
7. Make incisions on the chicken wings.
8. Put the chicken wings under the grill. I like them, so I use a lot.
9. Brown like this. The excess fat will drip off.
10. Put all the fish cakes in a colander. There should be a lot.
11. Pour hot water to drain excess oil. Be careful not to burn yourself!
12. Arrange the prepared ingredients in a large pot and add the dashi stock sachets (put the mochi kinchaku in last because it's very soft).
13. After 10 minutes, take out the dashi stock sachets. You can use dashi stock powder. In that case, use just one sachet.
14. After bringing to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer slowly for 1 hour. Add the mochi kinchaku just before serving.
15. Skewered octopus is nice for this hot pot. My children love them when they are tender.

The resulting soup is so tasty. Cooked octopus is also delicious in this hot pot. Great recipe for Staying Piping Hot in an Earthware Pot! I came up with this recipe to make delicious oden! Simmered dishes taste better if you turn off the heat when they are cooked through (remove the lid) and leave for a while so that the ingredients absorb all the.

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