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Nimono

Nishime, a nimono of various vegetables (includingbamboo shoot,lotus root andshiitake) prepared in southernAomori Prefecture
Course	Side dish
Place of origin	Japan
Region or state	Japanese-speaking areas
Main ingredients	Vegetable or seafood,dashi,sake,soy sauce,mirin
Similar dishes	Jorim
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Nimono (煮物) is a simmered dish inJapanese cuisine. A nimono generally consists of a base ingredient simmered inshiru stock and seasoned withsake,soy sauce, and a small amount of sweetening. The nimono is simmered in the shiru over a period of time until the liquid is absorbed into the base ingredient or evaporated. The base ingredient for a nimono is typically a vegetable, fish, seafood, ortofu, or some combination of these. Theshiru stock for a nimono is generallydashi. Other than sake and soy sauce, the stock can be further flavored withmirin,sugar,salt,vinegar,miso, or othercondiments.

• Misoni (味噌煮), alsomisodaki (味噌炊き): fish, but sometimes vegetables, simmered in a mixture of miso and dashi^[1]
• Nikujaga (肉じゃが): beef and potato stew, flavoured with sweet soy
• Nizakana (煮魚): fish poached in a broth of sweetened dashi, sometimes with miso, also referred to asnitsuke (煮付け). The dish first appears in cookbooks in the early 18th century^[2]
• Kakuni (角煮): chunks of pork belly stewed in soy, mirin and sake with large pieces of daikon and whole boiled eggs. The Okinawan variation, using awamori, soy sauce and miso, is known asrafuti.
• Sōki (ソーキ): Okinawan dish of pork stewed with bone
• Nabemono (鍋物): one pot
  • Oden (おでん): a winter one pot
• Nishime (煮染め): simmered vegetables (i.e.carrots,taros,lotus root,konnyaku, etc.), simmered-down in soy sauce and water until the liquid is almost gone, almost to dryness.

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• Ashkenazi, Michael; Jacob, Jeanne (2000).The Essence Of Japanese Cuisine: an Essay On Food And Culture. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon.ISBN 978-0-700-71085-0.OCLC 44937736.

• Japanese soups and stews

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