Making Nabe in My New Donabe

Nabe Vegetables

If you remember back in early October I received a gift from Tokyo containing a donabe (Japanese clay pot). This week I finally got the ingredients together to cook some nabe in it!

Donabe - Japanese Clay Pot

For the broth I filled the pot with water, about two thirds of the way up. I put in about 4 sheets of dashi kombu and two packets of powdered dashi that I had in the cupboard.

Nabemono

After the dashi kombu finished simmiring, I’ll pulled it out and added Japanese long onions, carrots, the thick pieces of Chinese cabbage, shiitake mushrooms, and some wakame.

Nabemono Meat

After those cooked a little while I added everything else in – thin slices of meat, tofu, konnyaku noodles, the rest of the Chinese cabbage, and Hamakua shimeji mushrooms.

My first experience making nabe with a donabe was fun and easy. The pot holds heat well and for a very long time. Usually after I turn the stove off the dish cools down pretty quickly. But this one was steaming hot even after second and third helpings!

Nabemono

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10 comments   -   November 15, 2008

1 Chou { 11.15.08 at 6:24 pm }

This sounds really good. I’m glad you got to use your new pot!

2 Lori { 11.15.08 at 7:43 pm }

Hi Chou,
Thanks, I was really happy to finally use it! :)

3 rowena { 11.15.08 at 9:38 pm }

Wow, I’m impressed! You definitely make this look so easy!! If the wet weather keeps up, it’ll be a quasi-nabe in my kitchen too.

4 Lori { 11.16.08 at 1:43 am }

Hey rowena,
Thanks! And I know what you mean about the weather, it’s so humid!!

5 Squawkfox { 11.19.08 at 5:42 am }

Now this looks easy to do and very very healthy. I’ve never heard of a donabe before. Now I feel like soup!

6 lauren { 11.19.08 at 6:17 pm }

The nabe looks delicious! I’ve been wanting to make nabe for a while, but I thought I needed to buy a portable gas stove to keep the pot warm. Maybe I’ll just buy a Japanese clay pot.

7 Lori { 11.19.08 at 11:52 pm }

Hi Squawkfox,
It was pretty easy, and if you want to make it easier they sell premade soup bases. Just have to cut everything up and add it in!

Hey lauren,
You should think about getting one. They’re pretty affordable and keep the food warm for a long time!

8 Kevin { 11.20.08 at 4:44 pm }

That nabe looks nice and fresh and good. I am going to have to look for a donabe .

9 Lori { 11.22.08 at 7:49 pm }

Hi Kevin,
I think you’d really enjoy this kind of pot!

10 Drew { 02.06.10 at 10:26 pm }

This looks so delicious and fresh, had to link to it… :)

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