Simmered Daikon with Chicken

Simmered Daikon with Chicken　(大根と鶏肉の煮物）

   In Japan, Daikon(大根), Japanese radish is one of the most welcome “season vegetable” in the winter. Japanese likes to braise daikon with meat or fish and it widely use in recipes like Oden, and Nabe Mono（鍋物）. And the recipe below, Simmered Daikon with Chicken (Daikon To Toriniku No Nimono 大根と鶏肉の煮物), also one of the typical Japanese home recipe in Winter. When you eat this hot, delicious dish during cold winter, you will feel the hearty touch with people just around you.

Ingredients: (4 serving)

1 medium sized daikon radish
600g chicken wings
4 dried shiitake mushrooms
4 shiso leaves
4 tbsp soy sauce
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tsp salt
2 tbsp japanese sake
soaking water from shiitake

Preparations:
 
Peel and cut daikon into  semi-circles slice about 3 centimeters thick. Soak the dried shiitake mushrooms in water to hydrated them. When hydrated, cut away the stems and cut the mushroom into half. Add shiitake soaking water in a pan together with chicken, daikon and shiitake mushroom. Put more water to cover them and bring to boil. Skim off the foam from the surface. Pour in soy sauce, sugar, oyster sauce, salt , Japanese sake and simmer for 30 ~ 40 minutes over medium low heat. Transfer to the serving bowls, garnish with shiso leaves.

See also
Japanese Recipes with Daikon : Oden
Japanese Recipes with Chicken : Teriyaki Chicken