How To Cook Japanese Steamed Eggs

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Video: How To Cook Japanese Steamed Eggs

Video: How To Cook Japanese Steamed Eggs
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How To Cook Japanese Steamed Eggs
How To Cook Japanese Steamed Eggs
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Characteristic of Japanese cuisine is that the products are consumed raw or prepared by a very short heat treatment. Another traditional method of cooking is steaming, but a special bamboo pot is used for this purpose. This is how the Jagaimo Manju potato balls and many other Japanese specialties are prepared, as well as the famous steamed eggs.

It will seem strange to many that the Japanese consume a lot of eggs, but in fact they are present even in such a popular sushi. They can be eaten both in the morning and in the evening, prepared in different ways.

In this case, however, it is more interesting to learn how to do it traditional Japanese steamed eggs, because in the European world we are used to consuming them mostly boiled, made into an omelet or just mixed.

Here is an authentic one japanese recipe for steamed eggs, which is prepared using the special bamboo cooking vessel mentioned above, but if you do not have one, you can use an ordinary pot on which you have placed a metal sieve.

Chauanmushi (steamed eggs in Japanese)

Chauanmushi (steamed eggs in Japanese)
Chauanmushi (steamed eggs in Japanese)

Necessary products: 8 eggs, 3 chicken breasts, 10 mushrooms, 18 king prawns, 1,200 ml Dashi broth, 5 tbsp. soy sauce, 2 tbsp mirin, 3 tbsp. sake, 1 tbsp. salt, 1 tbsp. sugar

Method of preparation: Beat the eggs in a bowl, and 1 liter of Dashi broth, myrrh, salt and 1 tbsp. of soy sauce put to neck in a saucepan. When dissolving them, the dish is removed from the hob and the beaten eggs are poured into it. Leave it like this until something like egg soup is formed.

The chicken breasts are washed, cut into cubes and left to stand for 1 hour in the marinade prepared from 2 tbsp. soy sauce and 3 tbsp. sake. Put the mushrooms in the remaining Dashi broth together with 2 tbsp. soy sauce and sugar for 5 minutes, enough to stew.

The chicken, peeled shrimps and prepared mushrooms are poured separately into bowls with egg soup and left in the container in which they will steam. When the dish in the bowls does not release juice when stabbing with a toothpick, then all products are ready to serve.

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