Cooks in: Anywhere from 1 hour to 12 hours
Serves: 3 decent size soups
Difficulty: Easy
Dashi
- 5 large dried shiitake mushrooms
- 1 litre water
- 2 sheets Nori
Cooking instructions
- Place the mushrooms in a pot with the water. Cover and soak for at least 30 minutes, or ideally overnight.
- Bring the water to a simmer, (80°C) then add then Nori. Do not boil. Cook for about 5 mins.
- Remove the mushrooms and squeeze out any excess liquid. You can thinly slice and saute these for later use.
- Strain the dashi through a fine-mesh sieve to remove any sediment.
- Then flavour the dashi with 2-3 tbsp Shoyu Koji. set aside for later on.
Finish the soup
Additional ingredients:
- 150g Baked Tempeh (cook 200g Tempeh)
- 3 leaves bok choy per soup.
- Thinly sliced spring onions for the garnish.
- Saute the shiitake mushrooms and use them as a garnish.
- Mooli Kimchi for the garnish.
- Udon Noodles
Cooking instructions
- Cook the udon noodles according to the instructions.
- Place inside the bowl, add the Tempeh, bok choy, and shiitake mushrooms.
- and then add the dashi, make sure the dashi is warm/hot.
- Followed by the Kimchi mooli and spring onions.
- Option can even add the Pickled Turmeric Mooli too.