●YASAI NO ANKAKE DON-----Vegetable
Bowl
＜Ingredients (for four)＞
40g string beans
1/2 white onion (80g)
40g carrot
3 raw shiitake mushrooms (40g)
40g red bell pepper
50g chicken breast
1 1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons Japanese wine "sake"
2 tablespoons soy sauce
water and starch mixture (2 tablespoons: 3 tablespoons)
rice for four
1 tablespoon salad oil
1)Remove the core of the onion, and cut into 5cm
length strips. Like the
onion, also cut the carrots tanzaku giri-wise, making
them into rectangular
strips of 6 cm in length. Remove the ferrule from the
shiitake mushrooms.
If the cap part of the mushroom is thick, cut it in
half and then cut the
mushrooms into thin slices with a slightly slanted
knife, also with 4-5 mm
width. Similarly cut the large red bell peppers into
strips of 5-6 cm in length
and 5mm in width. Cut diagonally the string beans.
Cut the chicken breast
into three pieces then also cut into long thin strips.
2)Warm 1 tablespoon of oil in a saute pan. Add the string
beans, onions,
carrots and saute quickly. Toss and stir until the
onion becomes translucent.
Then add the raw shiitake mushroom and the red bell
peppers. Stir and mix
the ingredients together. Add water then the chicken
breast strips. Turn
the heat to high and when it comes to a boil, add sake,
soy sauce, and salt.
3)When it starts to boil again, add the water and starch
mixture which will
make the sauce thick.
4)In a bowl, pour the sauce over the rice.
*By sauteeing with oil,
the sweet flavors are pulled out from the vegetables.
That is why water is enough even without the aid from
any stock.
Vegetables other than the ones named in the ingredients
can be used for
this menu, so used whatever is left in the fridge that
day. The important
key is not to have the vegetables raw. Therefore make
sure the vegetables
are all cooked thoroughly.