Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ozoni. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Ozoni is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Ozoni is something which I have loved my whole life.

Ozoni Recipe courtesy of Fresh Tastes Food blogger Marc Matusmoto shares his family recipe for Ozoni, a central dish for Japan's Oshogatsu holiday that is celebrated on the first day of the new year. 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. Ozoni is a special soup with Mochi (rice cake) in it that you eat in the morning on New Year's Day in Japan.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook ozoni using 12 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ozoni:

1. Make ready 7 dried shiitake
2. Take 4 C water
3. Make ready 1 sheet Kombu
4. Prepare 2 skin-on and bone-in chicken thighs
5. Prepare 1 C katsuobushi
6. Prepare Greens (mizuna, spinach, watercress, etc)
7. Prepare 1 fat carrot
8. Take 1 kamaboko
9. Make ready 1 Tbsp soy sauce
10. Take 1 Tbsp sake
11. Take 1 Tbsp sea salt
12. Take 2 stalks green onions, chopped

Ozoni is a Japanese dish served first thing on New Year's. Ozoni recipes differ between regions, families, and households, so each one has its own twist on the theme. All include a dashi (broth) and mochi. This recipe is graciously shared by Philip Hirose and the Maehara family,.

Steps to make Ozoni:

1. Place dried shiitake in a bowl of warm water.
2. Place kombu in a pot and fill with the 4C water. Slowly bring to a boil. Just before the water starts to boil, remove Kombu.
3. Place chicken thighs in the broth and cook through. Remove the chicken and let it cool on a plate. Remove scum from the broth.
4. Remove skin from the chicken and de-bone. Reserve chicken pieces.
5. Pour katsuobushi into broth and bring back to boil for 30s. Turn off heat and let the katsuobushi sink to the bottom, then strain the broth.
6. Squeeze shiitake over bowl and cut off the stems. Reserve the shiitake. Pour the shiitake water into the pot of broth, being careful not to pour the liquid at the bottom which has all the dirt. Add the soy sauce, sake, and sea salt to the broth.
7. Bring the broth back to boil and blanch the greens. Remove the greens and reserve.
8. Peel the carrot and cut 1/4in slices. Use sakura flower cutter to make the flower shapes from each slice. Place the flower carrots in the broth and simmer for 5min. Remove the carrots and reserve.
9. Cut the kamoboko into 1/4in slices and place them into the broth. Add the shiitake into the broth.
10. Warm up the mochi by following the package directions.
11. To serve: pour 3 ladles of broth into bowl. Place mochi in the bowl. Arrange kamaboko, shiitake, chicken, greens, and carrot flowers around the mochi. Top with chopped green onion.

All include a dashi (broth) and mochi. This recipe is graciously shared by Philip Hirose and the Maehara family,. Ozoni is a special miso-based soup enjoyed in the morning on New Year's Day in Japan. The soup usually includes mochi (rice cake), and the preparation varies by region and household. The Japanese celebrate the New Year by feasting on Osechi Ryori (お節料理), traditional Japanese New Year food packed in lacquered boxes along with this.

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