Chawan mushi

Steamed savory egg pudding

Ingredients

• Egg

• Small amount of each as inside ingredients (raw chicken breast, carrot, shiitake, shrimp, ginkgo seed, snow pea, chikuwa, kamaboko, mitsuba, cooked udon noodle, etc..)

• Dashi soup (or diluted mentsuyu)

Directions

1. Cut the ingredients into proper sizes

2. Make dashi soup and egg mixture Typical Proportion = Beaten egg (1) : Dashi soup (3)

3. In individual container, put small amount of each ingredients and pour 2

4. Boil water (about half the hight of the container), then put the containers in the pot

5. Wrap the cover with a cloth or paper towel and cover the pot (to prevent the water dripping)

6. Do not open the cover for 2 minutes on middle heat and 8 minutes on low heat

7. It is ready when you see the clear juice on the surface

Note

• Chawan （茶碗）= an individual ceramic bowl, Mushi （蒸し）= steamed

• Easy dashi soup: dashi powder + water

• Do not boil on high heat to prevent the surface of the pudding from developing tiny bubbly holes.

• You can make in a large container to share