OZONI (JAPANESE NEW YEAR MOCHI SOUP - KANTO STYLE)
Ozoni (Japanese New Year Mochi Soup) is one of the popular Osechi Ryori dishes. This clear dashi based mochi soup with chicken and seasonal vegetables is enjoyed in Kanto region (Eastern Japan).
Provided by Namiko Chen
Categories Soup
Time 30m
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Gather all the ingredients.
- Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces and put them in a small bowl, add ¼ tsp kosher salt.
- Add 1 Tbsp sake and mix well with hands. Let the chicken marinated for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, blanch the komatsuna or spinach in boiling water and cook until tender (do not overcook). Soak in iced water after removing from pot to stop cooking further.
- Squeeze the water out and cut the komatsuna into 1 ½ inch (3 cm) length.
- Make a knot with each mitsuba's stem. Peel the yuzu skin.
- If there is too much pith (the white fuzzy thing) was removed along with yuzu's skin, trim with knife. Julienne the yuzu peel very thinly.
- Add 4 cups (960 ml) dashi in a large saucepan or pot and bring it to boil. Once boiling, add the chicken pieces.
- Once all the chicken is added, cover to cook for 5-7 minutes, depending on the size of chicken.
- Once the chicken is cooked, skim the foam and fat on the surface.
- Add 1 Tbsp sake, 1 Tbsp soy sauce, and 1 tsp kosher salt. Mix well and keep it on simmer.
- When everything else is ready, start toasting mochi in a toaster oven. Optionally you can do this on a frying pan or oven as well.
- Serve the chicken and soup, add the mochi and komatsuna, and finally topped with mitsuba and yuzu. Enjoy immediately.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 216 kcal, Carbohydrate 28 g, Protein 9 g, Fat 7 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 39 mg, Sodium 563 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 26 g, UnsaturatedFat 4 g, ServingSize 1 serving
MOCHI BALL SOUP - A TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR'S JAPANESE DISH
My grandma and mom used to make this soup mostly during New Year's Eve. There are many variations to this soup. This is the way that I prepare it, so let your imagination fly with this. I can't find a nice photo for this dish, so I just took a photo of my japanese kokeshi doll. I will post a photo when I do make this dish for...
Provided by Jo Anne Sugimoto
Categories Other Soups
Number Of Ingredients 24
Steps:
- 1. In a medium pot combine water, shrimp, salt, bouillon and daikon. Boil until bouillon cubes are dissolved. Turn down to simmer.
- 2. In a medium bowl, combine mochiko, ham, salt and pepper, mix together. Gradually add the chicken broth to make dough. Form 1/2 inch dough balls, use mochiko on your hands so the dough does not stick and make a mess.
- 3. In a medium bowl, combine all the ingredients to make 1/2 inch pork ball. Slightly dampen your hands with water so the pork does not stick.
- 4. Turn your soup stock heat back up and add all the mochi balls and pork balls. Cook for 4 to 6 minutes, and until the mochi balls start floating to the top.
- 5. Variations and options: you can add vegetables, such as carrots, watercress, spinach, chinese cabbage, chinese squash, mustard cabbage, etc.
- 6. Serve hot in soup bowls, garnish with fish cake, green onions, chinese parsley.
OZONI (MOCHI SOUP)
People in Japan and the Japanese diaspora hold mochi-making parties in late December, taking turns swinging an enormous mallet, pounding sticky rice in a hollowed-out stump until smooth and stretchy, then shaping it into balls or disks. Some of the mochi is eaten fresh with sweet or savory toppings, and some is offered plain to the spirits. (Stores sell it for anyone too busy to make it.) On New Year's Day, hardened mochi pieces are reheated and used in ozoni soup. In Kyoto, round vegetables and mochi bob around in a pale miso soup; in Tokyo, rectangular mochi is served in shoyu broth; in Kanazawa, people add multicolored mochi and sweet shrimp to clear dashi; and in Fukui, it's red miso soup with mochi and nothing else. This recipe, from Corinne Nakagawa Gooden, originates in Hiroshima, and came to Seattle with her grandmother Hisaye Sasaki in the early 1900s.
Provided by Hannah Kirshner
Categories soups and stews, appetizer, main course
Time 1h
Yield 8 servings
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Make the chicken stock: Rinse the chicken parts. In a pot, bring the chicken, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and 2 quarts water to a simmer over medium-high heat. Continue to cook at a low simmer for 30 minutes, reducing the heat as needed to prevent a full boil (which would cloud the broth).
- Strain the broth and discard the chicken or reserve the meat for another use. Add the mirin to the broth and set aside.
- Bring a medium saucepan of water to a boil. Add the satoimo and blanch until the skin is soft enough to slip off easily, about 3 minutes. Drain the satoimo, then use a spoon to scrape off the skin. Slice the satoimo into ¼-inch-thick rounds, then transfer them to a small saucepan. Add enough of the chicken broth to cover. Bring to a boil over high, then reduce the heat to simmer until soft, about 15 minutes.
- In lacquerware soup bowls or other small bowls, neatly arrange mizuna, satoimo and 1 or 2 slices of Naruto. Peel one or two long strips from the yuzu, then cut the strips very thinly crosswise. In a medium saucepan, reheat the chicken stock. Taste and adjust salt as needed.
- To serve, heat the mochi until puffy and soft, for a few minutes in a toaster oven or under the broiler, or 30 seconds on high in a microwave, and add it to the bowls. Immediately ladle about 1/2 cup hot broth into each bowl - before the mochi hardens - and garnish with a pinch of yuzu peel.
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