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Gomoku Meshi Five-Ingredient Rice
Short-grain rice cooked in seasoned dashi with chicken, shaved burdock, carrot, fried tofu and konnyaku, so every grain takes on soy, mirin and earthy root flavour; serve it from the pot at the table.

- YieldServes 4 generously
- Hands-on25 min
- Total1 h 28 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 60 gboneless chicken, with or without skin
- 1small burdock root (gobo), scrubbed well with a stiff brush
- ½small carrot, scraped
- ½ piecethin deep-fried tofu (aburage)
- ½ piecekonnyaku (devil's tongue jelly), about 125 g
- 700 gJapanese short-grain rice (about 3.5 US cups)
cooking liquid
- 960 mldashi (or chicken broth)
- 1 tspsalt
- 4 tbspmirin
- 3 tbsplight (usukuchi) soy sauce
- 3 tbspdark (koikuchi) soy sauce
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