Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, bitter melon with bonito flakes and shio-kombu. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Today we explore Bonito flakes, a staple in Japanese Cuisine made from dried, fermented, shaved fish. The flakes are a primary ingredient in Dashi, a. Kombu, the leathery seaweed that is used to make dashi stock, is packed full of umami.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook bitter melon with bonito flakes and shio-kombu using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Bitter Melon with Bonito Flakes and Shio-Kombu:
- Get 1 Bitter melon
- Make ready 1 Shio-kombu
- Prepare 3 grams Bonito flakes
- Prepare 1 dash Usukuchi soy sauce
- Make ready 1 for boiling Salt
Kombu is an edible kelp (seaweed) and responsible for umami. It's used in many Japanese recipes like dashi (Japanese stock), sushi rice, and hot pot. Kombu is hard to digest on its own and must be cooked for a long time before eating. Therefore, it is mostly valued for its depth of flavor - Umami.
Steps to make Bitter Melon with Bonito Flakes and Shio-Kombu:
- Cut the bitter melon in half, remove the seeds with a spoon (the white pith is bitter, so remove as much as you can).
- Slice thinly.
- Bring the water to a boil, then add a little salt. Boil for 30 seconds.
- Rinse the bitter melon in cold water, then thoroughly squeeze out excess. Mix with bonito flakes, shio-kombu, and soy sauce.
Found the recipe for Kombu Celery in Bon Appetit October addition and had to Verified Purchase. The Shio Kombu seaweed is great!!! Dashi is the mother of Japanese dishes. This is the basic awase dashi (dashi made of two ingredients - kombu and katsuobushi), and besides knowing how to make it right, using the high quality ingredients is extremely important to make good dashi. Here's my basic dashi making process.
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