Fragrant With Mitsuba and Yuzu! Ozouni (Mochi Rice Cake Soup for New Years)
Fragrant With Mitsuba and Yuzu! Ozouni (Mochi Rice Cake Soup for New Years)

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, fragrant with mitsuba and yuzu! ozouni (mochi rice cake soup for new years). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

You can have Fragrant With Mitsuba and Yuzu! Ozoni is a traditional rice cake (mochi) soup that's eaten on New Year's Day here in Japan. This dish varies from region to region and this version is from. The soup usually includes mochi (rice cake), and the preparation varies by region and household.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have fragrant with mitsuba and yuzu! ozouni (mochi rice cake soup for new years) using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Fragrant With Mitsuba and Yuzu! Ozouni (Mochi Rice Cake Soup for New Years):
  1. Get 3 Mochi rice cakes
  2. Make ready 1000 ml Japanese dashi stock
  3. Make ready 50 ml ●Sake
  4. Prepare 2 tbsp ●Mirin
  5. Make ready 2 tbsp plus ●Soy sauce
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp ★Salt
  7. Get 180 grams Chicken thigh meat
  8. Make ready 3 to 4 Shiitake mushrooms
  9. Get 30 grams Dried wheat gluten (Fu)
  10. Get 6 slice Kamaboko
  11. Get 1 Komatsuna
  12. Get 4 to 5 Quail eggs
  13. Get 1 for garnish Mitsuba
  14. Get 1 for garnish Yuzu peel

My, born and raised in Tokyo, MIL makes a clear based soup with thinly sliced beef, daikon, carrots,and gobo, she then places a piece of just grilled mochi in the bowl and tops it with mitsuba. During the New Year holiday period, traditionally rice is not cooked, to give a rest to the cook. Instead, dried mochi cakes were used as the carbohydrate. Ozouni (お雑煮 おぞうに), which literally means 'mixed stew', is a soup with mochi cakes in it.

Steps to make Fragrant With Mitsuba and Yuzu! Ozouni (Mochi Rice Cake Soup for New Years):
  1. Cut the chicken thigh meat into bite sized pieces. Microwave the komatsuna greens, put into cold water and squeeze out. Cut into 4 cm pieces. Remove the stems off the shiitake mushrooms and make decorative cuts in the caps.
  2. Bring the dashi stock to a boil. I used a dashi pack (dashi tea bag) to keep it simple.
  3. Add the shiitake mushrooms and chicken to the dashi stock and bring to a boil. Skim off any scum.
  4. Add the ● flavoring ingredients, and adjust the seasoning with salt. Add the fu, simmer for about 5 minutes over medium heat, add the grilled mochi cakes and bring to a boil.
  5. Chop the yuzu peel and mitsuba.
  6. You can just use plain kamaboko slices…but to make decorative knotted ones, make three cuts in a slice as shown.
  7. Push the top and bottom ends into the middle slit to make a knot.
  8. Put into miso soup bowls, add the komatsuna greens, kamaboko, quail eggs, mitsuba and yuzu peel and serve.
  9. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Instead, dried mochi cakes were used as the carbohydrate. Ozouni (お雑煮 おぞうに), which literally means 'mixed stew', is a soup with mochi cakes in it. There is no one set recipe, and there are. Zōni (雑煮 or ぞうに), often with the honorific "o-" as o-zōni, is a Japanese soup containing mochi rice cakes. The dish is strongly associated with the Japanese New Year and its tradition of osechi ceremonial foods.

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