Best Shabu Shabu Recipes

SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• Arrange beef on a platter; spinach, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, cabbage, and onions on another platter; and tofu on a third platter or with the vegetables.
• Combine soy sauce, lemon juice, and 1/2 cup chicken broth in a bowl; portion dipping sauce into 6 very small bowls.
• Pour remaining broth into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Transfer hot broth to a fondue pot.
• Serve with chopsticks or forks. Individuals cook their own portions of meat, vegetables, and tofu in the boiling broth, then dip in dipping sauce and eat.

SHABU SHABU WITH DIPPING SAUCES

Steps:

• Arrange the meat attractively on a round platter, so that each slice can be easily picked up with chopsticks or a fondue fork. Arrange vegetables on a second platter.
• Fill a hot pot or nabe pot 2/3 full of dashi set on a burner on the table. Each diner picks up a piece of meat from the serving platter and swishes it around in the simmering broth until the red meat becomes pink, or cooked to the degree desired. Diners may alternate between meat and vegetables. The tofu breaks easily, so be careful when adding it to the pot. Diners eat from the pot, dipping the food into the dipping sauces which are placed in individual cups at each person's place.
• Combine the water and kelp in a large pot. Bring the water to a boil, removing the kelp just before water boils since it emits a strong odor. If the fleshiest part of the kelp is still tough, return it to the water for a few more minutes, along with a little cold water. (Soft kelp means sufficient flavor has been extracted.) Remove the kelp and bring stock to a full boil.
• Add 1/4 cup cold water to bring the temperature down quickly and add the bonito flakes. Bring to a boil, and then immediately remove from the heat. (If bonito flakes boil too long, the stock becomes bitter.) Allow the flakes to settle to the bottom of the pan, then filter the stock through cheesecloth. Yield: About 2 quarts
• Combine the dashi, soy sauce, and mirin in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Let boil for a few minutes to reduce by 1/3, then remove from heat and cool. Stir in vinegar to taste. Pour sauce into individual cups.
• Toast the sesame seeds in a heavy pan until lightly browned. Transfer warm seeds to a mortar and grind to a paste, or whirl in a blender. Add the dashi, soy sauce, mirin, sugar and sake, and mix well, using a spatula to blend and smooth the sauce. Add cayenne to taste. Pour sauce into individual cups.

SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• Put the water in a pan and add the dried seaweed. Simmer over a medium heat for about 10 minutes. Pull out the kombu when the water starts to boil. To enhance the flavour you can add some dried bonito flakes 5 minutes before taking the kombu out. It is important not to let the water and kombu boil. Strain the broth, discarding the kombu and bonito flakes.
• Place the beef between 2 sheets of cling film and bash with the back of a knife until it is very thin. Slice the beef into thin strips and place on a serving plate.
• Bring the broth to the boil. Add the shiitake mushrooms, followed by the enoki mushrooms, then the tofu and finally the watercress. Serve this pan of boiling broth at the table immediately and get your guests to cook their beef by dipping it in the broth with chopsticks.
• Give each guest a bowl of rice and a bowl for their broth, and a small dish of the ponzu dipping sauce. Don't forget the sake or Japanese beer.

SHABU-SHABU

Steps:

• Arrange steak on large platter, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
• Arrange cabbage, mushrooms, leeks, tofu, and spinach on another large platter, then cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.
• In large pot, bring 8 cups water to boil on stove, then transfer to tabletop stove.
• Place meat and vegetables in pot and swish around until meat is cooked through, about 15 seconds.

VEGETABLE SHABU SHABU IN KOMBU-GINGER BROTH

Steps:

• Make the shabu shabu: Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion, scallions and garlic, and cook, stirring, until softened, about 2 minutes. Add kombu and 6 cups of water and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer gently over low heat for 20 minutes. Transfer kombu to a cutting board and chop into 2-inch pieces; add back to broth. Stir in ginger and season with salt.
• Bring broth to a gentle simmer. Add daikon and mushrooms, and simmer for 2 minutes. Add bok choy and tofu, and stir, cooking until vegetables are tender, about 3 minutes longer. Divide the vegetables among 4 serving bowls, and add as much broth as desired.
• Meanwhile, make the dipping sauce. In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients.
• To serve, divide dipping sauce into individual bowls. Dip the cooked vegetables in the sauce, and sip on the broth as soup.

MICHEL-MICHEL SHABU-SHABU

Steps:

• Freeze meat for 1 hour. Cut into 12 to 16 thin slices. Place 1 slice between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and pound until paper thin. Repeat with remaining slices. (Can be rewrapped and refrigerated until 1 hour before serving.)
• Bring 4 cups of broth to boil and add grated horseradish or ginger. Lower heat and simmer gently for 10 minutes. (Can be prepared ahead up to this point, covered and left at room temperature.) Strain and measure, adding additional broth if needed to make 4 cups.
• Bring broth back to boil. Add rutabaga, zucchini, carrot and mushrooms, cover and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Stir in cabbage and snow peas, cover and simmer for 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Meanwhile, arrange meat slices in the bottom of 4 soup plates. Combine mustard and horseradish and spread over meat. Pepper meat. Ladle the broth and vegetables over the meat and serve immediately.

BEEF SHABU-SHABU

Steps:

• Place kombu on the bottom of a shallow 3 1/2-quart enameled cast-iron pot. Place harusame over kombu and top with tofu, cabbage, negi, and enoki and shiitake mushrooms, arranging each in a separate bunch in the pot. Add 8 cups of water and season with salt.
• Cover pot and bring to a boil over high heat on a portable burner set on a dining table. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, arrange meat, spinach, and sesame sauce on a serving platter. Uncover pot and add some of the meat slices, arranging in a single layer over other ingredients. Poach until rare or medium rare, 15 to 30 seconds. Dip into sesame sauce before eating. Add spinach and cook for 1 minute before eating. Continue cooking meat and spinach, adding more water as needed. Other ingredients in pot may also be eaten; dip in sesame sauce before eating.

REI-SHABU - COLD PORK SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• Before preparing entree, prepare one or both of the dipping sauces. This gives them a few minutes for the seasonings to meld.
• Wash lettuce leaves and tear into bite-sized pieces. (Though more Korean than Japanese, I like to leave my lettuce leaves whole and use them as wraps. A little more messy, but a lot more fun.)
• Cut carrot into julliene strips and trim green beans to 1 1/2 to 2 inch pieces. Boil water in a pan. Add green beans and cook for 2 or 3 minutes. Remove beans and plunge into cold water to stop cooking. Drain. Repeat same process with carrots, cooking for one minute.
• Slice/shave the pork into very thin pieces. This is sometimes easier if the pork is placed in the freezer for a half hour beforehand. Cook thinly sliced pork in the water for a couple of minutes. Drain the water and cool the pork in a strainer.
• Place lettuce, carrot, breen beans in a plate. Put boiled pork on the top.
• Serve with dipping sauce.

SESAME SAUCE FOR SHABU SHABU (GOMA-DARE)

Steps:

• combine all ingredients

MAGGIE'S REISHABU CHILLED PORK SHABU SHABU SALAD

Steps:

• Starting with the onions (and then soaking in ice water while working on the others), carefully cut and prepare the salad ingredients and mix together in a bowl.
• Bring a pot of water to a gentle boil and add the meat slices until cooked (it happens fast if they are thin) and then put them in a bowl of ice water and drain.
• In individual bowls, arrange the salad and place a few slices of cold boiled pork on top.
• Top with sesame dressing, sesame sauce or ponzu sauce made for shabu shabu, or try the delicious homemade sauce in this recipe (just mix the sauce ingredients together, and there you have it!).
• Serve with rice and miso soup as the main dish or with other dishes as a side.

BEEF AND VEGGIE SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• Fill an electric wok or fondue pot two-thirds full of broth. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer gently for 2 minutes.
• Meanwhile arrange beef slices, mushrooms, green onion pieces, cabbage, spinach and tofu on a platter and place at the table. Set out sauces in small bowls.
• Place pieces of mushroom, green onion pieces and cabbage on skewers or forks. Cook in broth 1 to 2 minutes. Add meat, spinach and tofu. Cook 2 more minutes. Remove from broth and dip in desired sauce before eating.
• When diners have had their fill of meat and vegetables, add noodles to broth and heat through. Sprinkle with chopped green onions. Ladle noodles and broth into soup bowls.

SAKE PORK SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• Pour sake and water into a large frying pan or wok and bring to boil. Once boiled, turn down heat and simmer. Cook pork slices 1 at a time. Remove each slice and cool in a strainer. Place cool pork slices on a plate and refrigerate while making dipping sauce. Serve with Miso Dipping Sauce and Soy Sauce Dipping Sauce.
• Place all ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until the sugar is dissolved. The consistency of the sauce should be that of gravy. Once this is achieved pour sauce into a bowl and serve with chilled pork slices. Both the miso dipping sauce and the soy sauce dipping sauce can be served with the pork slices.
• Place all ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil, stirring constantly, until the sugar is dissolved. The consistency of the sauce should be that of gravy. Once this is achieved pour sauce into a bowl and serve with chilled pork slices. Both the miso dipping sauce and the soy sauce dipping sauce can be served with the pork slices.

CHINESE CHICKEN IN THE POT (VARIATION ON SHABU SHABU)

Steps:

• Heat 2 cups of the broth until warm, and soak the mushrooms in the warm broth for 15 minutes. While the mushrooms are soaking, prepare the garlic, ginger, scallions, snow peas and water chestnuts, and skin the chicken, if necessary. After 15 minutes, drain the mushrooms, straining the liquid through a coffee filter, and reserve.
• Place the chicken, the 6 remaining cups of stock, the garlic, ginger and star anise in a large wide pot. Cover. Bring to a boil.
• Add the mushroom liquid and soy sauce. When it returns to a moderate boil, add the scallion whites and mushrooms. Continue cooking, uncovered, at a moderate boil for 5 minutes.
• Add the sliced water chestnuts and scallion greens, poking them down into the liquid. Place the snow peas on top. Cover, and return to a moderate boil. Uncover, and adjust the heat to remain at a moderate boil for 3 to 4 minutes or until the snow peas are cooked thoroughly but still crunchy.
• Remove chicken pieces to a platter with tongs. Skim the vegetables out with a slotted spoon, and scatter them over the top.
• Serve 1/2 to 2/3 cup of cooked rice in bottom of each bowl. Divide the chicken and vegetables evenly among the bowls, and top each with 1 cup broth.

CHILLED WAGYU SHABU SHABU, PANZANELLA SALAD AND BASIL PEARLS

Steps:

• For the salad, combine bread and vegetables. Drizzle with olive oil and vinegar to taste, season with salt and pepper. Keep cold until ready for use.
• Make this recipe twice. Keep one at 160 degrees and put ice into the other.
• 4 slices of Wagyu beef sliced 3/4 inch
• Gently dip a slice of beef into the warm broth until cooked, remove and place into the chilled broth until cooled.
• In a blender, combine water and calcium chloride, blend for 20 seconds, reserve in a bowl. In a sauce pot, combine sugar and water, bring to a boil, remove from heat and add basil. Puree for 1 minute until bright green then add sodium alginate. Strain this liquid and add to the caviar tray and dispense into calcium bath. Remove the caviar once they form and rinse in clean water.
• To plate, place panzanella salad in a bowl, top with chilled wagyu and basil caviar.

SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• Place in a medium-sized pot a couple of slices of kombu (kelp) and cover with cold water.
• Gently bring the water to a boil and remove the kombu just before it starts to boil.
• Let the water boil very gently.
• Take one of the items, swish it around in the hot water for a few seconds (for beef) to a few minutes (for vegetables).
• Combine 2 parts soy sauce with 1 part lemon juice for dipping sauce.
• Serve with hot steamed rice.

SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• If using fresh bamboo, fill a large pot with water and bring to a boil. Add bamboo shoot, nuka, and pepper; let boil for six hours, adding more water as necessary.
• Fill a large bowl with water and add bamboo shoot to water. Place bowl under a faucet and let faucet run on low for 12 hours. Drain bamboo and thinly slice.
• Fill a small saucepan with 2 cups of water; add cherry leaves and bring to a gentle boil. Add sakura no shiozuke.
• Arrange mackerel, yuba, mizuna, bamboo shoot and usu-age on a serving platter. To eat, using chopsticks, gently swoosh mackerel, yubu, mazuna, bamboo shoot, or usu-age through the broth and dip into the sauce.

SHABU SHABU

Steps:

• Heat broth to boiling on stove; transfer to fondue or other tabletop cooking unit; keep flame high enough to continue boiling.
• Let each guest cook the pieces of beef, chicken, fish, liver and mushrooms to their liking, dipping each piece into shabu sauce or sesame seed sauce before eating.
• When meat is almost gone, place the spinach, Chinese cabbage and onions into broth; stir for three minutes.
• Guests help themselves to the vegetables.
• When the vegetables are finished, add the noodles to broth; cook for five minutes and ladle into individual bowls.

SAVORY TOMATO SHABU SHABU WITH SEAFOOD DIPPERS

Steps:

• Place a blender onto the counter and add all 4 of the tomatoes and 1/2 cup of the vegetable stock. Cover and blend altogether until the tomatoes are completely pureed. Add the remaining vegetable stock and pulse for a few more seconds to combine.
• Place mixture into a saucepan or stove-top safe fondue pot, add the sliced ginger and roughly chopped cilantro, cover and place on medium heat until the mixture comes to a boil.
• While the sauce is heating, take the seafood out of the refrigerator and begin to arrange the fish on a plate.
• As soon as the sauce has come to the boil, transfer the pot onto the heat station on the table, and continue to keep the mixture at boiling point. If the liquid seems to have reduced just add more vegetable stock.
• Take a skewer and a piece of fish, skewer the fish and dip it into the sauce. Wait just a few seconds and taste with dipping sauces.
• Serve the seafood dippers with Lemon Mayonnaise and Ginger Cream
• In a mixing bowl combine the mayonnaise, lemon zest and juice.
• Yield: 8 servings
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Difficulty: Easy
• In a food processor place both heads of the ginger, pulse the ginger until it has become a pulp. Place the mayonnaise into a mixing bowl.
• Place a clean kitchen towel or cheesecloth over a bowl; transfer the pulp onto the towel. Pick up the towel by all 4 corners.
• Twist the kitchen towel very tightly over the mixing bowl, and let the ginger juice pour into the bowl. Stir in the mayonnaise, mix well and serve.
• Yield: 8 servings
• Prep Time: 5 minutes
• Difficulty: Easy