Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard)
Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard)

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Chawanmushi, silky smooth savoury egg custard. Delicately flavoured, sophisticated and classic Japanese dish. Unlike other egg custard, Chawanmushi is not sweet but it has savoury flavour packed with umami from dashi stock and topping ingredients.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chawan-mushi (japanese egg custard) using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard):
  1. Prepare 1 Egg
  2. Get 180 ml water
  3. Get 2 inch x 2 inch piece kombu/dried kelp
  4. Prepare 1 handful Katsuobushi
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp Usukuchi/light colored and salty soy sauce
  6. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  7. Make ready 2 small pieces boiled chicken
  8. Prepare 2 small pieces mochi
  9. Prepare 2 small pieces KAMABOKO fish cake
  10. Make ready 2 small pieces Shiitake Mushroom
  11. Make ready 2 small pieces YURINE and NAMAFU, only If you find at grocery
  12. Make ready 2 small pieces boiled shrimp
  13. Prepare to taste Yuzu peel
  14. Get 2 MITSUBA leaves

The base of the custard is an egg mixture flavored with. Japanese steamed egg custard served in a cup, ingredients include chicken, ginkgo nut, fish cake, shimeji Delicate and savory, Chawanmushi is a classic Japanese steamed egg custard served in a cup. Learn how to make this appetizer for a true Japanese home. Our chawanmushi recipe (or chawan mushi) provides easy to follow instructions for making a Japanese steamed savoury egg custard dish.

Instructions to make Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard):
  1. First, let's make Japanese dashi soup stock! Soak kombu in the water at least 30 minutes. Place the pot on low to medium heat.
  2. Right before the water boils, remove the kombu. Turn off the heat, and add the Katsuobushi. Let it set until Katsuobushi sinks.
  3. Strain the stock through a strainer with paper towel. Look at this golden color!! Let it cool.
  4. Preheat a steamer on high heat.
  5. Cut the solid ingredients into small pieces. Dip the chicken and shrimp into the soy sauce.
  6. Mix dashi, soy sauce and salt in a bowl. Taste it and if you feel that it's just like a soup, it's perfect! Adjust taste if needed.
  7. Beat the egg and add the dashi mixture to the egg. Strain it with a strainer.
  8. Place the solid ingredients in a small cup or a ramekins.
  9. Pour the egg mixture to fill 3/4 of cup and cover the cup.
  10. Reduce steamer heat to low. Place cups into the steamer. Cover and steam for about 10 minutes or until it is firm like silky tofu.
  11. Garnish each cup with a YUZU peel and MITSUBA leaf.
  12. You may also make Chawan-mushi with a microwave instead of a steamer. Pour hot water into a deep pyrex dish (or a heat resistant dish) for the water bath. Microwave in the water bath for 2 to 5 minutes.
  13. The time depends on your microwave power and the width of the cup. Please be careful not to overdo it. You may need to extend the cooking time by another 15 sec or so. Otherwise, You'll make a big mess… Take it slow!
  14. Yummy!

Chawanmushi (Savory Egg Custard/茶碗蒸し) is a delicate and savory Japanese appetizer that we The meaning of Chawanmushi. I am not a linguistic expert, but Chawan sounds like two Chinese words Incidentally, it also means the same in the Malays and Indonesian language. Chawanmushi is an egg custard dish found in Japan. Unlike many other custards, it is usually eaten as a dish in a meal, as chawanmushi contains savory rather than sweet ingredients. The custard consists of an egg mixture flavored with soy sauce, dashi, and mirin.

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