Chinese-Style Ozouni (Mochi Cake Soup) Flavored With Pure Sesame Oil
Chinese-Style Ozouni (Mochi Cake Soup) Flavored With Pure Sesame Oil

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese-style ozouni (mochi cake soup) flavored with pure sesame oil. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Ozouni (お雑煮 おぞうに), which literally means 'mixed stew', is a soup with mochi cakes in it. There is no one set recipe, and there are lots of regional variations. This one is a simple Kanto (Tokyo area) style ozouni, the way my mother makes it. It's very simple, not to mention economical - just clear soup, greens, chicken and mochi.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese-style ozouni (mochi cake soup) flavored with pure sesame oil using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese-Style Ozouni (Mochi Cake Soup) Flavored With Pure Sesame Oil:
  1. Make ready Carrot
  2. Get Cooked bamboo shoots in brine
  3. Make ready Shiitake mushrooms
  4. Get Chicken thigh
  5. Make ready Pure sesame oil
  6. Make ready Dashi stock
  7. Take Salt
  8. Get Soy sauce
  9. Get Sake
  10. Take Mochi (rice cakes)
  11. Prepare to garnish Mitsuba

We decorate the house with Mochi to dedicate to the New Year, and eat it to celebrate and hope for a good year. We have a big meal called Osechi along with Ozoni, but we'll talk about that some other time. The typical differences are the soup and the mochi rice cake shapes. Kansai style is made with white miso soup with round shaped mochi.

Instructions to make Chinese-Style Ozouni (Mochi Cake Soup) Flavored With Pure Sesame Oil:
  1. Cut the carrot into strips. Wash the bamboo shoot well, soak in water to remove the bitterness, and slice thinly. Cut the stems off the shiitake mushrooms and slice thinly.
  2. Cut the chicken breast meat into small bite sized pieces. Add 1 tablespoon of pure sesame oil and mix.
  3. Put the Japanese dashi stock plus the ingredients from Steps 1 and 2 into a pan, and bring to a boil. Remove any scum, and simmer over medium heat for about 5 minutes.
  4. Add salt, soy sauce and sake to season the soup, plus 1 tablespoon of pure sesame oil.
  5. Cook the mochi cakes in a oven until puffy and browned. Put them in serving bowls, pour the Step 4 soup over, add some roughly chopped mitsuba as garnish and serve.

The typical differences are the soup and the mochi rice cake shapes. Kansai style is made with white miso soup with round shaped mochi. On the other hand, in the Kanto region (east around Tokyo), people make mochi soup with soy sauce flavour clear soup with rectangular mochi rice cakes. Even without adding any special ingredients, the fragrance of pure sesame oil adds a Chinese-style flavor. It is unique in that the base of the ozoni mochi (rice cake) soup is made from a sweet pale white miso (fermented soybean paste).

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