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Simmered Renkon

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Restores8 (+0.6)
Eating time2s
Compost85%

Lotus root rounds simmered in dashi, soy sauce and sugar until the broth soaks through.

Obtaining

Usage

A simmered dish on the sweet side

The rounds come off the cutting board. Sugar carries the sweetness here, so the dashi and the soy sauce go into the pot separately rather than combined. Both bottles come back empty when it is done.

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Advancements

Satoyama Starred CookChallenge

Bring together one of every dish on the satoyama menu and receive the banner to hang by the door

Making it step by step

Each step shows one batch. Where recipes differ, the route with fewer processing steps is shown.

Process flowchart

Arrows connect each output to the matching ingredient in the next step. Scroll horizontally to explore wider diagrams.

Step 2EquipmentCutting Board
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Step 3EquipmentSmall Pot
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Step 4EquipmentDrying Rack
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Step 8EquipmentCrafting Table
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OutputSalt
Step 5EquipmentShaving Box
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Step 7EquipmentCrafting Table
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Step 9EquipmentPressing Vat
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In the real world

Simmered renkon belongs to the Owari district of Aichi. Peeled lotus root is cut into thick rounds and simmered in dashi, mirin, sake and sugar, then finished with soy sauce and left to cool so the flavour soaks in. Owari has grown lotus root since the Edo period, and the dish appears through autumn and winter and at the New Year table.

Differences in game

Peeling and cutting into thick rounds are carried by the renkon slices. The mirin is dropped and its sweetness handed to the sugar, and no sake is used. Simmering, adding the soy sauce and cooling to let the flavour settle are three passes over the same pot, so they fold into one turn, with the cooling carried by the length of the simmer.

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