Taste of Japan and Sake Live vol.49

Products used in "Taste of Japan and Sake vol.49"

O-Zoni
お雑煮

Japanese New Year is our Christmas when families get together and eat a collection of special food called ‘Osechi-Ryori’. O-Zoni is one of such dishes, after going through many starters that were pre-cooked in the last few days of the previous year, you reach this juicy sticky mochi in soup as main. Different soup is used in different region, and this recipe uses chicken and kombu as stock base.

Ingredients
Serves 2

Make soup
Add kombu dashi kelp stock to water, bring to a boil. Cut chicken into 2cm chunks and add to the soup. Reduce the heat to low, cook for 3 minutes.

Add soy sauce and mirin, salt to taste.

Bake mochi 
Preheat the oven at 180C.
Place mochi on baking sheet and cook for several minutes until it puffs up.
After 4 minutes, keep an eye on it. It happens suddenly. The mochi should be enlarged and slightly toasty on top. 

Assembly
Reheat the soup as necessary to make it hot.
Add the mochi to the soup and cook for 1-2 minutes to tenderize.
Turn off the heat.
Place one mochi in a bowl, pour the soup over.
Garnish with a slice of Naruto fish cake, prawn and coriander.

Repeat the process for another bowl.

Serve immediately.