Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, a famous hakata speciality - the soup is yummy! motsu nabe (offal hotpot). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Great recipe for A Famous Hakata Speciality - The Soup is Yummy! The motsunabe (offal hotpot) I had in Kyushu was soooo delicious, I tried re-creating it. The flavor is very close, so I'm satisfied. Please adjust the flavoring ingredients to taste.

A Famous Hakata Speciality - The Soup is Yummy! Motsu Nabe (offal hotpot) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. A Famous Hakata Speciality - The Soup is Yummy! Motsu Nabe (offal hotpot) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook a famous hakata speciality - the soup is yummy! motsu nabe (offal hotpot) using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make A Famous Hakata Speciality - The Soup is Yummy! Motsu Nabe (offal hotpot):

1. Get 300 grams Pig offal (motsu), raw or boiled
2. Take 600 ml ●Water
3. Prepare 1 tsp ●Dashi stock granules
4. Take 1 tsp ●Chicken soup stock granules
5. Take 3 tbsp ●Soy sauce
6. Make ready 2 tbsp ●Sake
7. Prepare 4 tbsp ●Mirin
8. Take 1 Red chili pepper
9. Get 4 clove - or as much (to taste) Garlic
10. Get 1/4 a head Cabbage
11. Get 1 bunch Chinese chives
12. Prepare 1/2 bag Bean sprouts
13. Take 1 as much (to taste) Tofu
14. Get 1 as much (to taste) Maitake mushrooms (or other mushrooms)
15. Take 1 Cooked rice, egg, green onions

A specialty of Fukuoka prefecture, motsunabe is a hot pot stew made with beef or pork offal. Innards like beef intestines and tripe are allowed to simmer in a soup base seasoned with soy sauce, garlic, and chili pepper. If you're visiting Fukuoka and like offal, then you need to try this dish. Vegetables served with offal are from Kyushu and create the perfect harmony with offal.

Steps to make A Famous Hakata Speciality - The Soup is Yummy! Motsu Nabe (offal hotpot):

1. Process the raw offal: Wash the offal well especially on the insides under running water. Blanch in boiling water briefly. When a lot of scum comes off, drain into a colander or sieve, and wash off any impurities under running water.
2. Slice the garlic, and the red chili pepper. Cut up the cabbage and chives into big pieces. Shred up the mushrooms into large clumps. Put the ● ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil. Add the garlic and chili pepper.
3. Line the bottom of the pot with several pieces of cabbage, and put the offal on top. Layer the rest of the cabbage, mushrooms, tofu, bean sprouts and chives on top in that order.
4. When the pot comes to a boil, lower the heat so that it doesn't boil over. Simmer until the cabbage is wilted without stirring. Stir everything once and it's done.
5. At the end when just some broth is left, add the rice and swirl in the beaten egg and make a porridge as the "shime" (the last part of the hotpot) - it's delicious! Sprinkle in some chopped green onion to taste and enjoy.
6. Appuru Akko tried this and added ramen noodles at the end. Next time I'm going to try that as the "shime"!! Miemie tried udon noodles!

If you're visiting Fukuoka and like offal, then you need to try this dish. Vegetables served with offal are from Kyushu and create the perfect harmony with offal. And I happened to be making chicken carcass soup, so I was motivated to try motsunabe. Hakata is known for its charming food culture that centers on unique foods like that you'd find at yatai (food stalls). The shiro motsu-nabe, a specialty of the restaurant, has a light Japanese dashi-based soup, concentrating the umami flavor in each bite of offal.

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