Dinner · 40 min · japanese

Ozoni New Year Soup

A Japanese dinner built around mochi and chicken thigh — on the table in 40 minutes.

Ingredients

• 4 pieces Mochi
• 0.5 lb Chicken thigh
• 1 cup Daikon
• 1 Carrot
• 2 cups Spinach
• 6 cups Dashi
• 2 tbsp Soy sauce
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Yuzu peel

Steps

1. Toast the mochi until puffed and golden — a toaster oven works, or a dry skillet. They should balloon dramatically.
2. Simmer the dashi with the chicken, daikon, and carrot 15 minutes until tender. Season with soy and salt; this Kanto-style clear broth should taste clean and refined.
3. Blanch the spinach and squeeze dry.
4. Place a mochi cake in each bowl and ladle over the hot soup with chicken and vegetables.
5. Garnish with yuzu peel and serve immediately, before the mochi deflates. The first soup of the new year — chewy, savory, and full of promise.

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