A popular dish using familiar ingredients such as chicken and fresh shiitake mushrooms.You can use shimeji mushroom and/or maitake mushroomsinstead of fresh shiitake mushroom.

■ Ingredients（ for 2 persons ）

• 1 piece of chicken thigh　 (about 300g)
• 6 shiitake mushrooms
• vegetable oil
• water
• 2 tbsp Japanese sake
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tablespoon Worcestor sauce
• 1 tbsp mirin 　　 (Japanese sweet rice wine)
• 2 tbsp soy sauce

■ Recipes

• 1. Cut the chicken thigh into bite-sized pieces. Cut the shiitake mushrooms in half.
• 2. Heat vegetable oil in a pan, cook the chicken thigh. When the chicken turned brown, add shiitake mushrooms and continuce to cook.
• 3. Pour water into ２ until cover chicken and shiitake mushrooms. Add sake, sugar, mirin and soy sauce and simmer until the chicken cooked.

Chicken is rich in umami substance; glutamate and inosinate, shiitake mushroom is rich in glutamate. Pairing of these two ingredients provides umami synergy and makes dish tasty.