- Welcome to Cook with Susan, Konnichiwa!

Means good day to everyone in Japanese.

And today I'm going to be cooking

a Japanese dish called sukiyaki.

Okay, so I had great teachers that taught me.

It was my ex mother-in-law and father-in-law,

who were Japanese.

So, let's get started!

The first thing that we have is vegetables.

So, there's a whole array of vegetables here.

There's napa, shiitake mushrooms,

this is lotus flower root, this is bamboo shoots.

There are green onions, enoki mushrooms.

Enoki mushrooms, I think maybe you should

take a look at what it looks like.

It looks like this in a package,

and I bought all this stuff at Mitsuwa Market.

Then, I have here is konnyaku, which is a yam.

And it comes in a package that looks like this.

I have fish cake, which comes in a package like this.

And shirataki noodles, it comes in a package like this.

Okay, and we've got tofu here,

for our meats we've got sukiyaki beef,

it comes in a package, so you will note

that it says "sukiyaki beef".

We have shrimp here, this is something different,

it's called foo, F-O-O.

And they're like little breads

that soaks up all the juice and broth

that I'm going to be making today.

And it comes in a package that looks like this,

Okay?

A little, all different things going on here,

so I thought maybe I'd let you look

to see what it's all about.

And then, with this dish, we actually eat it with rice,

so I have rice in the back cooking.

Alright, so the utensils that we need is a electric skillet,

and a couple of slotted spoons like this,

and probably something like this

where you could pick up all the food

and things like that before you cook it.

So, now we're make the sauce, the broth

that we're going to cook all these wonderful things in.

So, the first thing we're going to have is soy sauce.

This is one cup of soy sauce.

I'm going to make one cup because we have five people today.

So, you could always halve the recipe,

and that would be good, too.

And then I put four tablespoons of sugar,

two cups of water,

and a half a cup of of mirin,

and a half a cup more sugar, actually I'm going to wait.

I'm going to wait to taste it, because if

it doesn't taste like, if it's too sweet

it's not going to be good.

So, let me get a spoon here and I'm going to go like this,

(liquid stirring)

just, swirl it around and I'm just going

to take a quick taste to see how salty it is.

Okay, tastes pretty good.

What I'm going to do is add a little bit more water,

just a teeny bit more water.

I'll put about a half cup more.

And I am going to put the sugar in.

There we go.

(stirring liquid)

I'm going to taste that real quick.

Perfect.

So, what we do is we actually put it now into the skillet.

(liquid pouring)

We're going to turn on the skillet.

So, now what we do is just wait 'til it

sort of bubbles a little bit.

And then what we do is we put the vegetables

and the meats and the yams, tofu

and we just go ahead and put it in the pot

there, in the skillet and we put it

on top of the table and we watch it cook.

And, eat when it's done.

Okay, so now we're going to start putting

the vegetables into the pot, probably put

the ones that's going to cook the longest,

so I'm going to put the lotus root first.

So, these are going to take a little bit of time.

So, I'm just going to put all of them in here like that.

And, probably put these bamboo shoots in there, too.

Let's do that.

Okay, and, I'm going to switch over and get the tofu.

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One thing that Japanese do, is

they put, actually break an egg in a cup

- [Man] Okay. - [Woman] Mm-hmm.

- And they stir it up, just like what Tiffany's doing there.

- [Man] Okay.

- Yes, okay, and then you start adding

whatever you want.

So, what would you like, sweetie?

You probably want the beef again.

- [Man] Yeah.

- And you probably want a little bit of tofu,

put a little tofu in there.

- [Man] I will.

- Probably a little bit of fah, foo, excuse me.

And a little bit of the, as you can see,

- [Woman] That looks awesome.

- the egg actually gets cooked because you're putting

this really hot soup in there.

So, it's not like you're eating a raw egg.

- [Man] That's good, perfect, thank you.

- There you go!

- [Man] Wow!

This is kobe beef, I got a little bit of sauce

in here on my rice and I'm going to try the beef.

And,

see how this tastes.

(voices mumbling)

- What, it's a little sweet.

What is that from?

- There's sugar in there.

I added a little more sugar.

- It's like the perfect amount of sweetness.

- Do you like? Okay, good.

- No, I meant that having you, Tiffany

and April around.

(laughing)

- Thank you for watching,

and see you next time!

Bye!

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