A healthy, homey and humble one pot Japanese stew – daikon soboro. Make it in 20 mins with simple ingredients. Perfect for cold weather!
I bought daikon again. This time, I cooked a Japanese homey dish called Daikon Soboro (大根のそぼろ煮). It’s soupy, easy to digest and delicious. Instead minced meat, I used mung dal and soya chunks which tasted like chestnut.
What is Soboro（そぼろ）?
Soboro (そぼろ) generally refers to cooked minced chicken in Japan, but it can also be pork, beef, fish or other proteins. It can be seasoned or unseasoned, then being cook until it has no juice and is dry. If you search for Daikon Soboro, you will see that it looks like minced pork with sauce.
Vegetarian Version of Minced Meat
It is certainly delicious to use minced chicken/pork to cook daikon in soy sauce. But for those who want to reduce their meat consumption, mung dal is a good alternative.
Since mung dal is split, the cooking time won’t be long, about 10-15 minutes. It has a slightly sweet flavour and mushy texture after cooked. With this soy sauce stew, it tastes a bit like chestnuts! I also added soya chunks for extra bite, which is also good at absorbing the sauce.
Ingredients
- 250 g daikon, cut into cubes
- 50 g mung dal
- 10 soya chunks, hydrated and cut into small pieces
- ½ Asian shallot, diced
- slurry（¾ tbsp cornstarch＋¾ tbsp water）
- chopped scallion, for garnish
For the Sauce
- 2 tbsp minced ginger
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 2 ½ tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- 300 ml water
How To Make Japanese Vegetarian Daikon Soboro in 20 mins
- Heat a little oil in a pot, fry the shallots until fragrant. Then add the daikon, mung dal and soya chunks.
- Put all the sauce ingredients into the pot and bring to boil, simmer for 10 mins or until the mung dal cooked through.
- Stir in the slurry, mix well. Garnish with some green scallions before serving.
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