Nimono
Japanese simmered dish
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::summary Japanese simmered dish ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Nimono |
| image | Nishime.JPG |
| image_size | 230px |
| caption | Nishime, a nimono of various vegetables (including bamboo shoot, lotus root and shiitake) prepared in southern Aomori Prefecture |
| country | Japan |
| region | Japanese-speaking areas |
| course | Side dish |
| main_ingredient | Vegetable or seafood, dashi, sake, soy sauce, mirin |
| similar_dish | Jorim |
| :: |
| name = Nimono | image = Nishime.JPG | image_size = 230px | caption = Nishime, a nimono of various vegetables (including bamboo shoot, lotus root and shiitake) prepared in southern Aomori Prefecture | alternate_name = | country = Japan | region = Japanese-speaking areas | creator = | course = Side dish | type = | served = | main_ingredient = Vegetable or seafood, dashi, sake, soy sauce, mirin | variations = | calories = | similar_dish = Jorim | other =
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Nimono is a simmered dish in Japanese cuisine. A nimono generally consists of a base ingredient simmered in shiru stock and seasoned with sake, soy sauce, mirin and a small amount of sweetening. The nimono is simmered in the shiru over a period of time until the liquid is absorbed into the base ingredient or evaporated. The base ingredient for a nimono is typically a vegetable, fish, seafood, or tofu, or some combination of these. The shiru stock for a nimono is generally dashi. Other than sake and soy sauce, the stock can be further flavored with mirin, sugar, salt, vinegar, miso, or other condiments.
Types
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- Misoni, also misodaki: fish, but sometimes vegetables, simmered in a mixture of miso and dashi.
- Nikujaga: beef and potato stew, flavoured with sweet soy sauce.
- Nizakana: fish poached in a broth of sweetened dashi, sometimes with miso, also referred to as nitsuke. The dish first appears in cookbooks in the early 18th century.
- Kakuni: chunks of pork belly stewed in soy, mirin and sake with large pieces of daikon and whole boiled eggs. The Okinawan variation, using awamori, soy sauce and miso, is known as rafuti.
- Sōki: Okinawan dish of pork stewed with bone.
- Nabemono: one-pot meal.
- Oden: a winter one-pot meal.
- Nishime: vegetables (such as carrots, taro, lotus root, and konnyaku), simmered in soy sauce and water almost to dryness.
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