Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Gordon Ramsay For the New Year's Feast: Standard Chikuzen-ni (Simmered Chicken and Vegetables)

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have for the new year's feast: standard chikuzen-ni (simmered chicken and vegetables) using 15 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make For the New Year's Feast: Standard Chikuzen-ni (Simmered Chicken and Vegetables):

1. Take 2 Chicken thighs
2. Make ready 5 Dried shiitake mushrooms
3. Take 1 Carrot
4. Get 1 small Bamboo shoots
5. Make ready 1 Burdock root
6. Prepare 5 cm Lotus root
7. Make ready 1 packages Konnyaku
8. Get 30 grams Snow peas
9. Take 300 ml Dashi stock
10. Make ready 300 ml Soaking liquid from reconstituting the dried shiitake mushrooms
11. Get 4 tbsp ★Sake
12. Get 5 tbsp ★Soy sauce
13. Prepare 3 tbsp ★Sugar
14. Prepare 2 tbsp ★Mirin
15. Get 1 Vegetable or sesame oil

Instructions to make For the New Year's Feast: Standard Chikuzen-ni (Simmered Chicken and Vegetables):

1. Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Quickly fry in the frying pan and then place in a colander. Pour hot water over the chicken and drain.
2. Peel the lotus root and cut into slices 7-8mm thick. Cut in half so that they look like flowers. Soak in slightly vinegary water.
3. Rehydrate the shiitake mushrooms and then diagonally cut in half. Peel the burdock and chop. Soak in water.
4. Cut the head section of the bamboo shoot vertically into 8 pieces. Roughly chop the remaining bamboo shoot. Boil for 2 minutes and drain in a colander.
5. Cut the konnyaku into slices 7mm thick. Cut a slit in the center and twist the konnyaku to form "bridles." Place in boiling water and boil for 2-3 minutes. Drain in a colander.
6. Cut the carrot into 8mm round slices and then use a cutter to cut into blossoms. Remove the ends from the snow peas and parboil in salted water.
7. Twisted Ume Blossom Carrots: https://cookpad.com/en/recipes/146463-osechi-decorative-carrot-plum-flowers. Refer to this recipe for details on how to make the carrots. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/146463-osechi-decorative-carrot-plum-flowers
8. Place oil in a pot and stir-fry the vegetables. Add the chicken from Step 1, the dashi stock, and the liquid from rehydrating the shiitake mushrooms.
9. Add the ★ ingredients. When it comes to a boil, lower the heat to low and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
10. Arrange on a dish and decorate with the salted and parboiled snow peas.
11. Note: When you first cook the chicken separately, cook it until it is browned and then don't add to the main pot until about 15 minutes after the vegetables have cooked to prevent the chicken from falling apart. This will create a nice end result.
12. When you cook the chicken, first cook until the skin side is browned, and then quickly cook the opposite side as well.
13. Note: Remove the carrots halfway through simmering so that they don't become too soft. You could also add them later on.
14. If you serve it out into individual dishes, it is easier to eat.
15. Tip: Instead of soy sauce, if you use fish sauce, it will also turn out delicious. These have a light and delicious taste.
16. Refer to https://cookpad.com/en/recipes/143313-basic-dashi-stock-for-the-first-pressing for details on how to make the dashi stock. If you feel like the flavor is not enough, you can add a little bit of instant dashi stock granules. - - https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/143313-basic-dashi-stock-for-the-first-pressing

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