How much to cook chavan mushi?

Cook the chavan mushi for 1.5 hours.

How to cook chavan mushi

Products
Chicken fillet - 200 grams
King prawns - 4 pieces
Soy sauce - 50 ml
Parsley - bunch
Sake - a tablespoon
Kamaboko - 4 plates 5 millimeters wide
Shiitake mushrooms - 4 caps
Egg - 2 pieces
Dasha broth - 400 milliliters
Salt - half a teaspoon

How to cook chavan mushi
1. Wash the chicken meat in cold water, cut into cubes with a side of 3 centimeters.
2. Pour 2 liters of water into a saucepan, put the chicken, place over medium heat, wait until it boils and cook for 20 minutes.
3. Remove the chicken from the pan, pour over the soy sauce and sake.
4. Wash the mushroom hats in cool water, cut into strips 0.5 mm thick and 2 centimeters long.
5. Pour dasha broth into a separate saucepan, add a teaspoon of soy sauce, salt, put on medium heat, let it boil.
6. Remove the pot with dasha broth from the burner and cool.
7. Wash eggs, break into a cup, beat with a whisk.
8. Pour the egg mass into the dasha broth, mix, strain through a sieve.
9. Peel the shrimp, wash in cool water.
10. Pour a liter of water into a separate saucepan, place over medium heat, wait until it boils.
11. Dip shrimps in a saucepan with boiling water, cook for 10 minutes.
12. Arrange the chicken meat in soy sauce, mushrooms, shrimps, kamaboko in deep bowls, pour over the egg broth.
13. Pull cling film on top of the bowls, pierce it in several places with a toothpick.
14. Put the bowls on the bottom of a large saucepan, pour warm water into it so that it reaches the middle of the bowls.
15. Put a saucepan with bowls over medium heat, after boiling, cook for 20 minutes.
16. Wash and chop the parsley.
17. Remove the bowls from the pan, garnish the ready-made mushi chavan with parsley and serve.

Fusofacts

- Chawan mushi is a Japanese egg and chicken cream soup or a liquid omelet. Steamed.

- Chavan mushi is translated from Japanese as "steaming bowl".

- Soy sauce, dashi broth, rice wine, shiitake mushrooms, kamaboko, lily root, shrimp are added to the mushi chavan. Kamaboko, steamed fish dumplings can be substituted with crab sticks.

- Because of its liquid consistency, chawan mushi is one of the few Japanese dishes that is eaten with a spoon, not with chopsticks.

- Chavan mushi is served hot or chilled.

November 20, 2015 Last update June 7, 2020Author / Editor - Lydia Ivanova

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