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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







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