Braised Chicken Cubes and Vegetables

Here is a truly fabulous dish of varied tastes and textures. Cubes of crunchy, woodsy burdock root, tender chicken, smooth konnyaku and colorful sweet carrot are braised in a faintly sweet soy broth and finished off with a pinch of fiery hot spices. In Japan, this chicken and vegetable dish frequently shares the limelight with blocks of Thick Sweet Omelet on a Japanese picnic lunch menu. Se