Pork and Vegetable Ankake

Ankake is meat, seafood, and/or veggies stewed together in a sauce(I used soy sauce, sake, mirin, and water) thickened with starch, like Chinese cooking. I packed in pork, ginger, napa cabbage, spinach, carrots, onions, and shiitake mushrooms til the pot was full to the brim. It was a great way to get so many veggies, but I don't think I poured in the starch/water very skillfully, because the starch got clumped and it was more like I made small clumps of transparent noodles instead of making an overall thick ankake sauce. It was still yummy and very warming though.