NABE | SAVORY

Nabe is a variety of different hot pot dishes typically enjoyed during the colder seasons. Most nabes are stews and soups where one giant pot sits in the middle of the table and cooks whatever you wish to have cooked inside the pot. Diners can pick whatever they want out of the pot. Usually the hot pot is accompanied by some sort of dipping sauce or broth to go along with the inside ingredients. There are many different types of nabe depending on the flavoring of the broth. It can range from very light flavored broths such as kombu stock or heavy stocks such as miso and soy sauce. Nabe is not to be confused with shabu shabu. Although very similar, the preparation between the two is different - Nabe is when all the ingredients are cooked in the pot at once while shabu shabu is cooked one by one.

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