Colorful Ozoni Mochi Soup for the New Year
Colorful Ozoni Mochi Soup for the New Year

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, colorful ozoni mochi soup for the new year. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Toast the mochi, put the ingredients and mochi into a soup boil, and pour in the dashi soup. Ozoni (Japanese New Year Mochi Soup) is an important dish for the Japanese New Year. This clear dashi-based mochi soup with chicken and seasonal vegetables is enjoyed in the Kanto region (Eastern Japan). Ozoni (お雑煮) is a mochi soup that we eat along with Osechi Ryori (traditional dishes) on New Year's Day in Japan.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have colorful ozoni mochi soup for the new year using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Colorful Ozoni Mochi Soup for the New Year:
  1. Get 60 grams Chicken thigh meat
  2. Get 8 cm Burdock root
  3. Take 30 grams Cooked bamboo shoots in brine
  4. Take 6 cm Kintoki Carrot (dark red carrot)
  5. Take 4 cm Lotus root
  6. Take 2 Shiitake mushrooms
  7. Take 2 to 3 cm Kamaboko
  8. Get 6 Snow peas
  9. Make ready 400 ml ☆Water
  10. Prepare 1 packet ★Bonito flake pack
  11. Take 1 tsp ★Mirin
  12. Get 1 tsp ★ Usukuchi soy sauce
  13. Take 1 tsp ★Sake
  14. Take 1/2 to 1 teaspoon ★Powdered dashi stock
  15. Prepare 1 pinch ★Salt
  16. Prepare 1/2 Nori seaweed
  17. Get 3 cm square Yuzu citrus peel
  18. Prepare 1 Mitsuba
  19. Make ready 2 Temaribu (decorative dried wheat gluten shaped like little balls)
  20. Make ready 2 Round mochi

The perfect hearty, nourishing and satisfying soup to kick off the new year! Happy New Years everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! Ozoni (Japanese New Year's Soup) With Mochi, Chicken, and Vegetables Luck and longevity—these are just two of the qualities associated with mochi, the soft and chewy Japanese rice cakes made from short-grain, glutinous rice. Each member of the mochi family is rich with symbolism.

Instructions to make Colorful Ozoni Mochi Soup for the New Year:
  1. Cut out the COOKPAD logo out of nori seaweed (refer to Steps 9-13).
  2. Slice the carrot into 5 mm, use a flower shaped cookie cutter to cut out the shape. Remove the starchy string from the snow peas, and cut the bamboo into bite sizes. Slice the lotus root to 5 mm.
  3. Boil the ingredients from Step 2. It'll be less bothersome if you start boiling ingredients that release the least amount of scum first! Slice the kamaboko to 5 mm.
  4. Put the bonito flakes into a clean tea bag. Soak the Temaribu in water.
  5. In a pot, add water, thinly sliced burdock root, chicken cut into bite sizes, thinly sliced shiitake mushrooms, and bring to a boil. Add the bonito flake tea bag, and boil for 3 minutes until fragrant.
  6. Add the (★) ingredients, bring to a boil again, and turn off the heat.
  7. Toast the mochi, put the ingredients and mochi into a soup boil, and pour in the dashi soup. Top the mochi with the cut nori, and yuzu peel (refer to Step 14) and mitsuba.
  8. [For a white miso broth] Omit the soy sauce and salt, and add a packet of white miso soup for an easy white miso version!
  9. [Cutting the nori] Prepare scissors and a paper cutter. Cut the logo to the same size as the mochi.
  10. Cut the nori 1-2 mm larger than the logo pattern (so it's thick enough to avoid mistakes).
  11. Cut out the inside of the nori circle using a paper cutter, to have a 3-4 mm thick ring (cut like you're making multiple small lines around the circle).
  12. Lay the hat pattern on top of the cut circle, and cut out the shape.
  13. Use the paper cutter to cut out a 2-3 mm outline of the hat shape.
  14. [How to cut the yuzu peel] Thinly peel the yuzu citrus, cut out a rectangle, and make two lengthwise cuts to make a backwards N. Fold back to make a X. This is called a "broken pine needle."

Ozoni (Japanese New Year's Soup) With Mochi, Chicken, and Vegetables Luck and longevity—these are just two of the qualities associated with mochi, the soft and chewy Japanese rice cakes made from short-grain, glutinous rice. Each member of the mochi family is rich with symbolism. Ozoni お雑煮 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. Celebrate the arrival of the new year with a simple, delicious Japanese ozoni ((お雑煮) soup!

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