Chawan mushi

Ingredients:eggs, dashi, salt, usukuchi, soy sauce, sasami chicken meat, shrimps, shimeji mushrooms, kamaboko

Preparation:First break eggs in a large ball. Draw the letter Z on the bottom with the tip of the chopsticks, do not foam. Second little by little, add cooled dashi and then salt, soy sauce. Third to improve texture, strain egg through a net.

Fillings

First remove white sinewy tissue from sasami chicken meat. Cut into bite size pieces. Sprinkle with soy sauce. Second remove black vein from shrimps. Devine except for tail. Third remove roots of shimeji mushrooms, tear into easy to eat pieces.

How to cook:First prepare Chawan mushi serving cups. If serving cups with lids are not available, use tea cup covered with aluminum foil. Second divide fillings into 4 except for mitsuba and yuzu strips, neatly place filling and kamaboko slices in individual cups. Pour in egg mixture. Use a double-boiler pan (mushiki) half full with water and boil cups. Heat about 15minutes.

Chawanmushi is one of the traditional Japanese food. Please enjoy it.