Easy Basic Five-Ingredient Simmered Beans (Gomoku Mame)

• 100 grams Boiled soy beans in water
• 1/4 Carrot
• 2 Dried shiitake mushrooms
• 5 cm Kombu
• 1/4 Burdock root
• 1/4 Konnyaku (small)
• 2 to 3 cm Lotus root
• 1 tsp Sesame oil (for stir frying)
• 200 ml The soaking liquid from the kombu seaweed and dried shiitake mushrooms
• 1/2 tsp Bonito dashi stock granules
• 1 tbsp Mirin
• 1 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce

1. Rehydrate the dried shiitake mushrooms and konbu seaweed.
2. Optionally peel the burdock root and carrot.
3. Cut all the vegetables and konbu into 5 mm dice (about the same size as the soy beans).
4. Heat up the sesame oil in a pot and quickly stir fry the cut up ingredients.
5. Add the flavoring ingredients, then the soy beans.
6. Simmer for about 20 minutes, until there's almost no liquid left in the pan.

soy beans, carrot, shiitake mushrooms, root, lotus root, sesame oil, shiitake mushrooms, granules, mirin, soy sauce

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/153103-easy-basic-five-ingredient-simmered-beans-gomoku-mame (may not work)