Zoni

Ingredients: Pieces of cut mochi, chicken leg meat, bunch komatsuna, 3-4 cm carrots, 3 cups of dashi (ichiban dashi), 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon usukuchi (light flavored) soy sauce, yuzu (citron).

How to make: First, mix and heat up dashi, salt and soy sauce. Second, wash komatsuna, boil stems down, cut into 3 cm pieces. Third, divide meat into 4 pieces. Then lightly peel carrots. In intervals cut 5 triangular pieces out of the carrot lengthwise. Slice into 7-8 mm flower-shaped pieces. After that grill mochi on broiler net until toasted and inside is puffy. Finally gently pour dashi over mochi, meat, and komatsuna and carrots. Garnish with yuzu peel.

Zoni is traditional Japanese food. We eat it first day of the year.