Heston Blumenthal, Pascal Barbot, Nobu Matsuhisa, Kiyomi Mikuni

Rice with chicken and vegetables

Name: Rice with chicken and vegetables (Gomoku gohan)
Yield: serves 4
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: 5 cm burdock root, peeled; ⅓ carrot, peeled; ⅓ block konnyaku (devil’s tongue); 1 tsp salt; 450 g rice; 120 g chicken thighs, boned; 1 dried shiitake mushroom; 1 tbsp light soy sauce; 1 tbsp sake; 600 ml dashi

Gomoku gohan

Preparation info

serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Dashi and Umami

By Heston Blumenthal , Pascal Barbot , Nobu Matsuhisa and Kiyomi Mikuni

Published 2009

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Ingredients

For the stock

600 ml dashi
1 tbsp sake
1 tbsp</

Asia
Japan
Main course

Method

To prepare the rice, wash and leave it to soak in water for 30 minutes before cooking.
Reconstitute the shiitake mushroom by leaving it to soak in water for roughly 10 minutes. Remove the stalk and slice. Cut the burdock root into sasagaki style, soak in water for 5 minutes then dry.
Cut the chicken int