Shiitake no Fukumeni (Sweet Simmered Shiitake Mushrooms)

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Shiitake no Fukumeni (Sweet Simmered Shiitake Mushrooms)

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Shiitake no Fukumeni (Sweet Simmered Shiitake Mushrooms) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Soak the dried shiitake in 1.5 cups warm water until soft, about 20 minutes, then trim the stems, keeping the soaking liquid.

  2. Combine the mushrooms and soaking liquid with the soy sauce, mirin, and sugar in a small pot.

  3. Simmer uncovered, turning occasionally, until the liquid reduces to a thick glaze, about 15 minutes.

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Serve it with

A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Shiitake no Fukumeni (Sweet Simmered Shiitake Mushrooms), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Shiitake no Fukumeni (Sweet Simmered Shiitake Mushrooms) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Shiitake no Fukumeni (Sweet Simmered Shiitake Mushrooms)
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten Yes Ninjin Shirishiri (Carrot and Egg Stir-Fry with Tuna)
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy Yes Ninjin Shirishiri (Carrot and Egg Stir-Fry with Tuna)
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
40 kcal
Protein
1 g
Carbs
10 g
Fat
0 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
4 g
Sodium
450 mg
Saturated fat
0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Shiitake no Fukumeni (Sweet Simmered Shiitake Mushrooms) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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