Tougan Soup

Ingredients:

• Tougan 2 pounds

• Onion 1

• Ground meat 1 pound

• Kabocha 1/4

• Mushroom (any kind) 1 cup

• Ginger some. (fresh or powder)

• Bay leaf

• Potato starch (katakuriko). 2 tbsp

Directions;

1. Chop onion into fine pieces, and sautee with oil

2. Add ground meat, ginger, and sautee more

3. Add other vegetables (mushroom, kabocha...)

4. Add a bay leaf and water enough to cover the ingredients and boil for a while

5. Add consome, salt, pepper and simmer

6. Add tougan (cut in a bite size cutes) toward the end

7. Adjust the flavor (soup stock, salt, pepper, etc...)

8. Mix potato starch with a little water, and pour in the soup and stir

Note:

• Tougan cooks fast and will melt if cooked long

• Tougan can be cut in cubes and freeze - ready to put in soup frozen

• Add any vegetables and meat of your pick