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Simple Japanese Hot Pot (Sukiyaki)

written by Emma Tang

Simple Japanese Hot PotIf you are familiar with Japanese hot pot dish, you have probably heard of Sukiyaki. A one-pot dish with thinly sliced beef and assorted vegetables cooked or simmered in a sweet soy sauce based broth. Hot Pot (Sukiyaki) for One is one of the most popular hot pot styles among Japanese and wildly known outside of Japan. Generally a winter dish, the warm and comforting sukiyaki is a delicious way to warm your up on cold winter nights.

Sukiyaki is usually cooked in a shallow cast iron pot over a portable gas stove at the dinning table. If you don’t have a cast iron pot nor a portable gas stove (neither did I), don’t worry. We can still enjoy this delicious food by using other types of cookware such as a clay pot and cooking on stove top.

Simple Japanese Hot Pot step oneOther than thinly sliced beef (ribeye), popular ingredients cooked with the beef include leafy vegetables, tofu, mushroom and so on. For this recipe, I used nappa cabbage, enoki mushroom, firm tofu and carrot. These ingredients can be substituted with what’s easy to find in where you live. For example, instead of nappa cabbage, you can use spinach or bok choy.

The soy based broth for sukiyaki is very easy to make. Simply combine mirin (Japanese sweet cooking wine), soy sauce, water (or sake) as well as sugar and bring it to a boil.

Simple Japanese Hot Pot step twoBeef for sukiyaki: 

When you are at a Japanese grocery store, you could easily find pre-sliced and prepackaged beef in the meat section. Look for the package specifically labeled as beef for Sukiyaki (store-sold sukiyaki beef can be expensive). If you can’t find pre-sliced beef or want to save money (who doesn’t), a great idea is to visit your local butcher shop and have them give you a piece of well-marbled ribeye meat and sliced it yourself at home (cuts for sukiyaki are about 1/8-inch thick).

Simple Japanese Hot PotThere are two main styles of sukiyaki, the Kanto style (from eastern Japan) and Kansai style (from western Japan). Kanto style makes the broth first, and all the ingredients are cooked at the same time in the broth; while people in western Japan like to first sear and enjoy some of the beef first before adding the rest of the ingredients to the pot. This sukiyaki recipe is Kanto styles.

I hope you enjoy making this sukiyaki. If you like this recipe, please leave a rating and share it with your friends!

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Simple Japanese Hot Pot
 
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Prep time
10 mins
Cook time
20 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
Author: Spice the Plate
Serves: 1-2
Ingredients
  • ½ pound thinly sliced beef rib eye for sukiyaki
  • ½ package enoki mushroom
  • ½ package firm tofu, cut into ½-inch slices
  • ½ carrot, peeled and sliced
  • ¼ head nappa cabbage ((about 5-6 leaves)
  • 1 stalk scallion, chopped
  • Broth:
  • ¼ cup mirin (Japanese sweet cooking rice wine)
  • ¼ cup soy sauce
  • ¼ cup water
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
Instructions
  1. Combine mirin, soy sauce, water and sugar in a small sauce pan and bring it to a boil. Once boiling, turn off the heat and set aside.
  2. Cut the ribeye steak into paper-thin slices (or most Asian grocery stores have pre-sliced beef for sale).
  3. Brush off any loose dirt on the enoki mushrooms with a paper towel, cut off and discard the roots, tear into smaller bundles and set aside.
  4. Cut tofu into ½-inch slices and slice the carrot.
  5. Separate the nappa cabbage leaves from the stem, rinse them under water and set aside.
  6. Place and arrange all the ingredients in a Japanese clay pot or a cast iron pot and pour the broth into the pot.
  7. Cover with a lid and bring to a boil under medium-high heat.
  8. Once boiling, turn to low heat, simmer (with lid on) for another 15-17 minutes until all ingredients are cooked through.
  9. Sprinkle with chopped scallion to serve and enjoy!
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11 comments

Danielle Daman August 3, 2018 - 1:15 pm

This is a great recipe! I will definitely try it! I especially appreciated your suggestion for the meat as I would have never thought of having the butcher thinly slice it for me. This seems very simple and doable!

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Emma Tang August 3, 2018 - 1:26 pm

Thanks Danielle!

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Colin December 24, 2020 - 6:51 pm

I know my local butcher when I ask him to make it as Asian fondue he’ll cut it nice an thin.

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Brendy November 9, 2018 - 9:58 pm

This broth recipe is far too rich! I made a pot of 1 cup water, 1 cup soy sauce and 1 cup rice wine with 4 tbs sugar. I ended up adding 2 MORE cups of water to dilute it down and it was still very strong. I would probably do a ratio of 1:1:4 with 1 tbs sugar per batch at LEAST. The flavor was good once I diluted it, though.

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Roger Woods March 29, 2019 - 12:26 am

The sodium content in soy sauce is high.I use sodium free every thing.

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Anon January 21, 2019 - 11:34 am

“wildly known outside”
Perhaps widely known?

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jf July 14, 2020 - 12:02 pm

i think the water should be one cup. the others are a quarter cup of each.

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Colin December 24, 2020 - 6:53 pm

If I don’t want to use tofu what can I replace it with?

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Sebesho March 27, 2021 - 10:29 am

I loved the recipe

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CHris J December 16, 2021 - 5:15 am

It’s rather simple and easy, though I found that because I doubled the amount of broth (my wife often likes the broth) it was…for me, slightly too sweet. I’d make it in the future with much less sugar. As it stood, I added a lot more plain drinking water to the broth to dilute the intensity of the broth as I prepared it, Overall, I was pleased with the results–wife would like to see more veggies and ‘green’ in the pot but she’s hard to please. ALl in all, it was a good ‘baseline’ to work from. THank you

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Emma Tang April 5, 2022 - 3:56 pm

You are very welcome!

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