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

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, colorful ozoni mochi soup for the new year. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Ozoni is a delicious miso-based soup is enjoyed on New Years Day in Japan. 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 special mochi soup called Ozoni (お雑煮). This delicious miso-based soup is enjoyed on New Years Day in Japan.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook colorful ozoni mochi soup for the new year using 20 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

Enjoy the delicate flavors of a kombu based broth with rice mochi and vegetables. Think of ozoni as healthy comfort food for the soul. It's a Japanese tradition my mother introduced to our home in Canada and one I have brought to Brooklyn. Every New Year's Day in Japan, families sit down to eat a bowl of ozoni, a soup studded with tender, chewy mochi and lots of other tasty bites.

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 is one of Japan's traditional New Year's foods. It comes in many forms depending on the locale and family, but it always features a seasoned broth. During the New Year holiday period, traditionally rice is not cooked, to give a rest to the cook. Instead, dried mochi cakes were used as the carbohydrate. Ozouni (お雑煮 おぞうに), which literally means 'mixed stew', is a soup with mochi cakes in it.

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