Mille Feuille Nabe - Beautiful Japanese Hot Pot

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Mille Feuille Nabe is a hot-pot stuffed with layers of Napa cabbage, perilla leaves and beef slices.

Course: Medium

Servings: people

Start with a cabbage leaf. Place two pieces of perilla leaves on top of the cabbage leaf. Then place two beef slices on top. Put another piece of cabbage leaf on top. Then place another layer of perilla leaves and beef slices. Finish the stack by topping it off with a third cabbage leaf.
Repeat this process until you have used up all of your leaves or other ingredients. Cut each stack into thirds with a knife.

Break off the leaves off each bok-choy. Take out a large pot and place the leaves on the bottom of the pot.
Then place each stack on top of the bok choy leaves. Place each in a circular path.
Finish the pot by placing enoki and Shiitake mushrooms in the middle.

Clean out the 'black' insides from each dried anchovy. Discard the head. We will only use the cleaned bodies.
Place the cleaned anchovies, dashima pieces, daikon piece, shiitake stems and water into a large pot.
Turn on a high heat and set a timer for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, take out the dashima pieces. Let rest of the ingredients boil for another 10 minutes. After 20 minutes, take-out all of the ingredients. Season the broth with soy sauce and salt.

Mix soy sauce, vinegar, cooking wine and honey together. It will be enough for two people.

Gently pour your broth into the pot. Turn on a high heat until you can hear the pot boiling.
Then reduce the pot to a medium heat and let it continue to simmer.
When you see that the beef has fully cooked through (like shabu-shabu), it is ready to eat. Take out one stack, dip in dipping sauce and enjoy!