Japanese New Year's Mochi Soup - Ozouni
Ingredients
- 5 cups water
- 2 dashi packs
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sake ...(optional)
- 1/2 lb chicken ...if you like extra chicken, use 1 lb
- 1 white part of leek ...chopped thinly
- 4-8 pieces mochi ...1-2 pieces per bowl but use more if you like
- 1/4 cup bonito flake
- 1/2 tbsp mitsuba (Japanese pasley) ...(optional)
Instructions
- Cut chicken into small pieces (3/4-1 in. cube size).
- Put water & dashi pack in medium size pot and start boiling water. After 5min of boiling, remove dashi pack. Fish stock is done now.
- Add chicken into the fish stock & add sake (optional).
- Cook chicken for about 10 min in medium heat.
- Add 1/2 tsp of salt to the soup and add another 1/2 tsp if it needs more salt. (Some dashi pack contains more salt so adjust the amount of salt here.)
- Cook mochi on a wire rack on stove top or toaster oven until lightly brown.
- Put mochi & soup into bowls. Top with bonito flake & mitsuba.