Shabu Shabu

[Genny]

Shabu Shabu

Serves 4 as Main Dish.

This is a simple and fun meal for two or four. The trickiest part is procuring the right cut of meat if you are using beef or pork. See instructions below.

I have found an electric skillet is easiest for this but you may use a hot plate or traditional hot pot with sterno if you have it.

• 1 lb beef, pork, seafood (see below)
  
• 1 large carrot, sliced into thin rounds
  
• 1 pkg mushrooms: oyster, button, straw
  
• 1 brown onion, quartered
  
• 1 napa cabbage
  
• 1 daikon radish, grated fine
  
• 1 bunch green onion, minced
  
• 1 snow peas/ sugar snap peas
  
• 1 bottle Ponzu sauce
  
• 1 bottle Sesame sauce (optional)
  
• 2 servings cooked rice
  

If using beef or pork: These must be thinly sliced like a carpacio or prociutto. You may be able to find this cut already at a Japanese or other Asian market. If not, go to your butcher and choose a couple steaks that are nicely marbled, we prefer choice ribeye, and instruct the butcher to freeze it and slice it as thin as humanly possible, laying it out on a deli plate for you with paper between any layers.

Cut carrots into rounds, quarter mushrooms and onion, peel a few leaves from the napa cabage and quarter those as well. The peas should be rinsed clean and dried. Put all this onto a pretty serving plate in a nice display. It will hold in the fridge all day so you can do this as early as you like.

The ponzu sauce and sesame sauce should be placed in small bowls, one of each for each person.

The minced green onion and daikon should be placed in separate serving bowls. You'll need about 1/2 cup of each. Each person will take some of each of these as is their preference to season their ponzu sauce.

Put water in the electric skillet (or other vessel) in the center of the table and bring it to a simmer.

Each place setting should have a bowl of rice, chop sticks and a bowl each of ponzu and sesame sauces. (We only use the ponzu at our house!) Toss a few veggies in the water and each person can fish them out with their chopsticks as they wish. Put the meat in a location where each person can reach it. You will take a piece of meat, swish it in the water until it has reached your preferred donenness (generally only a few seconds) and dip it in your sauce before eating.

Keywords: Easy, Japanese, Beef, Main Dish, Dinner, Vegetables, Vegetarian, Healthy Choices

( RG1998 )