Recipe: Tasty Simple Chicken Ozoni (Mochi Soup) (Kanto Style)

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Simple Chicken Ozoni (Mochi Soup) (Kanto Style). Ozoni (Japanese New Year's Soup) With Mochi, Chicken, and Vegetables Recipe. Every New Year's Day in Japan, families sit down to eat a bowl of ozoni, a soup studded with tender, chewy mochi and lots of other tasty bites. This tasty ozoni is light tasting, with a delightful chicken flavor.

We're making Ozoni, Japanese Mochi Soup, whose clear soup gives it a beautiful presentation.

This excellent dashi broth is full of umami coming from kombu seaweed and bonito flakes. [recipe] This ozoni soup, made with mochi, chicken, shrimp, spinach and mushrooms, is a soup traditionally eaten on New Year's Day in Japan.

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.).

You can cook Simple Chicken Ozoni (Mochi Soup) (Kanto Style) using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Simple Chicken Ozoni (Mochi Soup) (Kanto Style)

It’s 100 grams of Chicken thigh (chopped into 2- to 3-cm cubes).
Prepare 50 grams of Daikon radish (sliced into 5-mm thick wedges).
It’s 30 grams of Carrots (sliced into 5-mm thick wedges, or cut into florets).
Prepare 2 of Shiitake mushrooms (quartered).
Prepare 50 grams of Taro root (sliced into 1-cm thick rounds).
You need 80 grams of Komatsuna greens (parboiled, chopped into 3- to 4-cm lengths).
It’s 1 dash of Yuzu peel (Thinly sliced).
It’s 2 of to 4 Mochi (rice cakes).
Prepare 5 grams of Bonito-based dashi stock granules.
Prepare 1/2 tbsp of Soy sauce.
Prepare 1 tsp of Salt.
Prepare 2 tsp of Sake.

The soup includes toasted mochi, chicken, and komatsuna (小松菜) - Japanese mustard spinach, usually harvested in.

The Kanto style: chicken, fish cakes, dried shiitake, carrot, and some leafy vegetables like komatsuna, spinach, or mitsuba are often included in the soup, and garnished with yuzu peel.

The Kansai style: ozoni, satoimo (taro root), daikon, and carrot are the common ingredients and often garnished with katsuobushi (bonito flakes) on top.

Cut chicken into thin slices and place it back into the broth.

Simple Chicken Ozoni (Mochi Soup) (Kanto Style) instructions

Bring 800 ml water to a boil, add the chicken, and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes while skimming the scum. Add the bonito dashi, soy sauce, salt and sake to season..
Parboil the daikon radish, carrots, and taro root separately..
Add the shiitake mushrooms to the broth from Step 1, add the daikon, carrots, and taro root, and briefly heat..
Put grilled mochi in a bowl with the soup from Step 3, then garnish with parboiled komatsuna and yuzu..

Drain, rinse in cold water, and drain again.

Broil mochi until puffed and soft but not brown.

Ozoni is a traditional soup that Japanese families have on New Years day.

Although there may be a few regional or family variations, the very basic zoni soup includes dashi (seafood or fish stock), greens of some type (usually mizuna or spinach), and a plop of white mochi dumpling.

This soup inspired by Auntie Eiko's Japanese new year soup.