Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chawan-mushi (japanese egg custard). One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard) is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chawan-mushi (japanese egg custard) using 14 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard):

1. Get Egg
2. Get water
3. Take x 2 inch piece kombu/dried kelp
4. Prepare Katsuobushi
5. Make ready Usukuchi/light colored and salty soy sauce
6. Make ready salt
7. Prepare small pieces boiled chicken
8. Take small pieces mochi
9. Get small pieces KAMABOKO fish cake
10. Take small pieces Shiitake Mushroom
11. Get small pieces YURINE and NAMAFU, only If you find at grocery
12. Make ready small pieces boiled shrimp
13. Get Yuzu peel
14. Make ready MITSUBA leaves

Instructions to make Chawan-Mushi (Japanese Egg Custard):

1. First, let's make Japanese dashi soup stock! Soak kombu in the water at least 30 minutes. Place the pot on low to medium heat.
2. Right before the water boils, remove the kombu. Turn off the heat, and add the Katsuobushi. Let it set until Katsuobushi sinks.
3. Strain the stock through a strainer with paper towel. Look at this golden color!! Let it cool.
4. Preheat a steamer on high heat.
5. Cut the solid ingredients into small pieces. Dip the chicken and shrimp into the soy sauce.
6. Mix dashi, soy sauce and salt in a bowl. Taste it and if you feel that it's just like a soup, it's perfect! Adjust taste if needed.
7. Beat the egg and add the dashi mixture to the egg. Strain it with a strainer.
8. Place the solid ingredients in a small cup or a ramekins.
9. Pour the egg mixture to fill 3/4 of cup and cover the cup.
10. Reduce steamer heat to low. Place cups into the steamer. Cover and steam for about 10 minutes or until it is firm like silky tofu.
11. Garnish each cup with a YUZU peel and MITSUBA leaf.
12. You may also make Chawan-mushi with a microwave instead of a steamer. Pour hot water into a deep pyrex dish (or a heat resistant dish) for the water bath. Microwave in the water bath for 2 to 5 minutes.
13. The time depends on your microwave power and the width of the cup. Please be careful not to overdo it. You may need to extend the cooking time by another 15 sec or so. Otherwise, You'll make a big mess… Take it slow!
14. Yummy!

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