Vegetable Tofu Nimono Recipe (Savory Stew with Vegetables and Deep-Fried Tofu)

Ingredients

• 100 g Atsuage (thick deep-fried tofu)
• 100 g Carrot
• 200 g Taro (satoimo)
• 100 g Boiled Bamboo Shoot
• 75 g Burdock Root (Gobo)
• 100 g Lotus Root
• 4 Dried Shiitake Mushroom (medium-size)
• 100 g Konjac
• 30 g Dashi Kombu Seaweed (used for making dashi stock)
• Snap Pea Pod (substitute: string bean pods or snow pea pods)
• 400 ml Dashi Stock (combined with shiitake liquid)
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• 2 tbsp Sake
• 2 tbsp Soy Sauce
• 2 tbsp Mirin