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Great recipe for Our Family's Zouni - Regional Recipe from Yame, Fukuoka. This recipe, taught to me by my mother-in-law, is from her hometown of Yame in Fukuoka prefecture. It's a delicious zouni with surume dried squid, konbu seaweed, dried shiitake mushrooms, chicken, and root vegetables plus round mochi cakes. It's a recipe I want to leave for future generations.
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The ingredients needed to make Our Family's Zouni - Regional Recipe from Yame, Fukuoka:
- Get 1/2 Surume - dried squid (body)
- Make ready 15 cm piece Kombu
- Get 8 Dried shiitake mushrooms (small ones)
- Prepare 200 grams Chicken breast meat (cut into 2-3 cm dice)
- Get 1/4 Burdock root
- Get 1 section Lotus root (small)
- Get 1 Kintoki carrots (dark orange carrots)
- Get 4 Satoimo (taro root)
- Make ready 1 Mitsuba
- Get 600 ml Bonito based dashi stock
- Get 50 ml Sake
- Prepare 2 tsp Soy sauce
- Take 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon Salt
Many dishes in Japanese cuisine can easily be made vegan, as is the case for this traditional Japanese New Year's soup, known as zoni, also called ozoni (honorific term). Ozoni is a soup consisting of vegetables and mochi (rice cake) and may include chicken, fish, seafood, or kamaboko (fish cake) in non-vegan versions. Tradition runs in my family in Japan. In my family, we eat mochi miso soup in the morning for breakfast on New Year's Day.
Instructions to make Our Family's Zouni - Regional Recipe from Yame, Fukuoka:
- Cut the surume and the konbu seaweed into 1.5 cm squares, and soak to rehydrate in 400 ml of water overnight in the refrigerator. Re-hydrate the dried shiitake mushrooms also in 200 ml of water overnight in the refrigerator.
- Cut the stems off the dried mushrooms. Slice the burdock root into 0.7 mm thick diagonal slices. Peel the lotus root and slice into 0.7mm thick rounds. Cut the kintoki carrot and satoimo into 1 cm thick slices.
- Put the bonito dashi stock, 50 ml sake, soaking liquid from the surume, konbu seaweed, dried shiitake mushrooms, sliced shiitake, burdock root, and lotus root into a pot and bring to a boil. When it comes to a boil add the chicken, and simmer for 10 minutes while skimming off the scum.
- Add the carrots and satoimo to hte soup. When it comes back to a boil add the soy sauce and salt. Simmer until the carrot and satoimo are tender.
- When the carrot and satoimo are tender, add one round mochi cake per person. When the mochi is tender it's done.
- Ladle the soup into bowls, and garnish with mitsuba.
- Use small vegetables and slice them into rounds. The round shapes in an o-zouni soup stand for "rounded and harmonious," apparently. If the vegetables are too big, you'd have to cut them into half-moon shapes, which wouldn't mean the same.
- The flavoring ingredients are based on an amount of bonito dashi stock + soaking liquid totaling 1200 ml . I used dark soy sauce, so I added salt so the soup wouldn't turn too dark.
Tradition runs in my family in Japan. In my family, we eat mochi miso soup in the morning for breakfast on New Year's Day. My mom says that it is a New Year's breakfast food, thanking God for good harvesting, that our family lived safely in the previous year, and to receive the grace of God. Unlike white miso-based Ozoni enjoyed in western Japan (Kansai, Shikoku, and Kyushu regions), clear dashi-based soup is the mainstream in Tokyo and eastern Japan (Read this post to learn some of the differences between eastern and western Japan.). The soup includes toasted mochi, chicken, and komatsuna (小松菜) - Japanese mustard spinach, usually harvested in.
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