abstract:is a Japanese stew (a type of nabemono or one-pot dish) commonly eaten in vast quantity by sumo wrestlers as part of a weight-gain diet. It contains a dashi or chicken broth soup base with sake or mirin to add flavor.
A traditionalchanko nabeusually contains a dashior chicken brothsoupbasewithsake or mirin to addflavor. Vegetables and meat are thencooked in the soup.