Recipe: Tasty Shabu Shabu

Shabu Shabu. Shabu-shabu (Japanese: しゃぶしゃぶ, romanized: shabushabu) is a Japanese nabemono hotpot dish of thinly sliced meat and vegetables boiled in water and served with dipping sauces. The term is onomatopoeic, derived from the sound -"swish swish" -emitted when the ingredients are stirred in the cooking pot. The food is cooked piece by piece by the diner at the table.

It's intimate yet casual, and a whole lot of fun! Raleigh I shabu shabu I sushi The time we first wandered into the Ginza district of Tokyo, we found a 'hole-in-the-wall' restaurant with a lunch special of shabu shabu. Didn't know what we were in for, but by ordering and waiting until the table next to us had also been served, we learned the approach to this Japanese beef and vegetable fondue. You can cook Shabu Shabu using 6 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Shabu Shabu

1. Prepare of Kombu.
2. You need of Water.
3. It's of Beef (*very thinly sliced).
4. It's of Your favourite Dipping Sauce.
5. It's of <Other Ingredient Suggestions>.
6. Prepare of Wombok (Chinese cabbage), Mizuna, Lettuce, Spinach, Bok Choy, Carrot, Daikon, Tofu, Shiitake, Enoki, Shimeji, Harusame (Potato/Bean Starch Noodles).

Shabu Shabu is a Japanese hot pot dish, Nabemono, with paper-thin sliced beef. It is cooked at the dinner table using a portable gas stove and we eat it as we cook. There are a lot of Shabu Shabu speciality restaurants in Japan, but you can prepare it at home too. The single most important ingredient of the dish is beef.

Shabu Shabu instructions

1. Fill a pot that you use for cooking (a clay pot is recommended) two-thirds full with Water and soak Kombu in the Water for at least 30 minutes. OR add 1 teaspoon Kombu Dashi powder..
2. Prepare the ingredients and dipping sauce. Daikon and Carrot need to be sliced very thinly. I recommend using peeler to make noodle-like thin & long slices..
3. Heat the water and remove the Kombu just before the water comes to a boil. Put a slice of beef in the boiling stock and swish it gently back and forth in the boiling soup until it changes colour. Enjoy the meat with dipping sauce..
4. Cook other ingredients in the boiling stock as well. *Skim off any foam or scum on the surface as you repeat cooking meat..

Yoshi Shabu Shabu is uniquely the first restaurant of its kind to open it's doors in the Dallas / Fort Worth Area. A traditional Japanese Shabu Shabu restaurant that serves only the highest quality meats that pair with our exceptional dipping sauces. Yoshi represents wholesome natural food with integrity. The words shabu shabu meaning "swish swish," which describes the light swishing sound of the meat in the simmering broth. Sometimes, seafood such as crab legs can be added to the ingredients.