Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, simple perfect oden. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Simple Perfect Oden is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Simple Perfect Oden is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Score a cross and boil until a skewer pierces through easily. Traditionally, the soup is made with homemade dashi or Japanese soup stock. Dashi is made from scratch with kombu (dried seaweed) and shaved bonito flakes. This Oden is a simple Japanese stew is delicious and easy to make.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have simple perfect oden using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Simple Perfect Oden:

1. Prepare 4 cm Daikon radish
2. Take 1/3 of a slab Konnyaku
3. Get 2 Eggs
4. Get 1 Chikuwa
5. Take 2 Wrapped burdock, fish cakes
6. Make ready 1000 ml ○Japanese dashi soup stock
7. Make ready 2 tbsp ○Soy sauce
8. Make ready 1 tbsp ○Mentsuyu
9. Get 1 tsp ○Salt
10. Take 1 tbsp ○Sugar
11. Take 1 tbsp ○Sake

In my case, it's usually a lot. But maybe I should back up a bit, in case you don't know what oden is. Oden is the quintessential comfort food in Japan to take the chill off of winter. You can even get it in cans out of vending machines.

Instructions to make Simple Perfect Oden:

1. Slice the daikon radish into 2 cm rounds and peel the skin. Score a cross and boil until a skewer pierces through easily. Boil the eggs completely.
2. Slice the konnyaku to 1 cm and thread the end through the hole to make a "rein knot." Blanch in the leftover water from boiling the eggs. Pour boiled water from the daikon over the fish paste items to drain excess water.
3. Add the ingredients marked with ○ to the heated soup stock. Add the daikon radish, eggs, and konnyaku, and simmer on low heat. After 35 minutes have passed, add the chikuwa. After another 5 minutes, add the other fish paste items.
4. After adding all the fish paste items, boil for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat and cool.
5. To make the rein-knot konnyaku, cut a 2 cm hole in the center of the sliced konnyaku and thread one side through the hole, as seen in the photo in Step 2.
6. If you make your own dashi soup stock, you can use kombu seaweed. Save the kombu used to make the stock and after the oden has been simmering for 20 minutes, add it in.

Oden is the quintessential comfort food in Japan to take the chill off of winter. You can even get it in cans out of vending machines. Oden is a hearty Japanese one-pot dish which is perfect for eating in cold weather. It has a variety of ingredients such as Daikon radish, Konnyaku, Atsuage (deep fried tofu), Beef sinew, eggs and all sorts of fish cakes in a subtly flavoured soup. A classic winter comfort dish in Japan, Oden is a one-pot dish with an assortment of fish balls, fish cakes, deep-fried tofu, hard-boiled eggs, konnyaku and some vegetables simmered in soy sauce-based dashi broth.

Foods That Make You Happy

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Green tea is excellent for moods. You were simply waiting to read that here, weren’t you? Green tea has been found to be packed full of an amino acid called L-theanine. Studies show that this specific amino acid can basically stimulate brain waves. This helps improve your mental energy while simultaneously relaxing the rest of your body. You were already aware that green tea could help you feel so much healthier. Now you are aware that it helps you to raise your moods also!

As you can see, you don’t need to eat all that junk food when you want to feel better! Try some of these suggestions instead.