Simmered Bamboo Shoots in Dashi Broth – Happy Donabe Life

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups (420 ml) kombu and bonito dashi or your choice of dashi
• 2 tablespoons sake
• 1 tablespoon raw brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon mirin
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon or more sea salt
• 8 oz (240 g) pre-cooked bamboo shoots, cut into bit-size pieces
• 3 rectangular abura-age (fried tofu pouch) blanched and cut each into 4 strips
• 3 tablespoons dry wakame seaweed (cut), rehydrated (total about 1 cup/ 240 ml after reconstituted)
• Shaved katsuobushi (bonito flakes), for serving
• Shichimi togarashi (Japanese seven-spice powder), for serving