What ingredients are used in Shabu Shabu?

Answer 1

♡I love Shabu sbabu! I live in Japan and make it here at home at least twice a month.　(*^o^*)　It's fun and delicious, Healthy too!(^_-)-☆
☆The main ingredients can be beef, pork, fish, crab, shrimp, scallops, konyaku... It depends on what YOU and your family like. Make sure the meat and fish are thinly sliced for best results.
☆The other ingredients also depend on your taste. I personally use tofu and aburage, leeks, shitake and enoki mushrooms, chinese cabbage, carrots... You can see most of these ingredients here:
http://www.koreankitchen.com/images/shabushabufinal3.jpg
http://www.koreankitchen.com/images/shabushabufinal.jpg
☆The water/stock used is usually flavored with 'konbu', seaweed:
http://hills.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~smeshe01/hw5/konbu.jpg
When I don't have any on hand, I use leeks or whatever I have handy.
☆The dipping sauces we use are 'goma' sauce, sesame:
http://www.quickspice.com/scstore/images/ebara-shabu-goma_lg.jpg
and ponzu dipping sauces, there are a variety:
http://www.icaviar.com/Store/ProdImages/PONZ00l.jpg
There are many types of shabu shabu, even tofu shabu shabu:
http://tokyoredhed.typepad.com/tokyo_redhed/tofu_shabu.jpg
Be creative and use your own favoriye ingredients, it will be delicious any way you prepare it!(*^o^*)
～☆After the shabu shabu, some people like to add noodles to the pot and enjoy that. My family adds white rice and egg. It makes a delicious 'soupy rice' flavored with all the wonderful veggies and other ingredients. Enjoy! Hope this helps!♡

Answer 2

Wikpedia has a pretty good explanation. You can put whatever you want in shabu shabu, and can order from a long list of ala carte items in a good restaurant.

You start with boiling water seasoned with kombu seaweed.
You boil your favorite ingredients in the water and, after they're cooked, you dip them in ponzu (a citrus flavored soy sauce). More delicate ingredients, such as paper-thin slices of meat, are not thrown into the boiling water, but held in the water with chopsticks and shaken back and forth until the desired level of doness is reached (usually a few seconds). Shabu shabu is a Japanese phrase that describes this gentle motion.

The Wikpedia link lists the most common ingredients. Go to an authenticate restaurant for the best education

Here's the wikpedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shabu_shabu

Answer 3

Shabu Shabu is like asian fondue. The broth that you cook your sutff in is usually made from Kombu (a type of seawead). You can just use water if you like.

As for the rest of the stuff you can use anything that you like. If you are using a protein make sure that it is sliced super thin (unless doing tofu - cut in cubes). Cut all veggies that you like into bit size pieces. I usually do napa, shitake, bean sprouts, kobucha, and spinach.

Shabu Shabu is usually served with two different dipping sauces: Ponzu and a Sesame Sauce.

After you are done you can do ramen in the broth that remains. I usually add some white pepper and salt for seasoning.

Answer 4

Shabu Shabu Recipe - Japanese Recipe

NGREDIENTS:
1 1/2 pound beef loin (*very thin slices)
7 cups dashi soup stock
1/4 pound chinese cabbage/hakusai
1 leek
1/4 pound shimeji, shiitake, or enoki mushroom
PREPARATION:
Cut beef, chinese cabbage, leek, and mushrooms into bite-sized pieces. Place the ingredients in a large plate. Put dashi soup in a pot at the table and heat. Add some vegetables in the pot and simmer. Cook beef slices in the pot for 5-10 seconds as you eat with dipping sauce.
Add more vegetables in the pot as you eat.
Makes 4 servings

Answer 5

well a lot of stuff.. you use that white clear thingy.. to warp all the food.. like cucumber, avacado, carrot, that green thing, some shrimp egg i think...