Wakame Seaweed Soup
Comments: Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
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Servings: 4
IngredientsPreparation
  • 1/4 ounce [7 g] dried wakame [edible seaweed]
  • 1/2 pound [227 g] white fish
  • Salt
  • 1 teaspoon [5 mL] sake [Japanese rice wine]
  • 1 tablespoon [15 mL] cornflour
  • 1 cup [250 mL] boiling water
  • 2 1/2 cups [675 mL] fish stock
  • 1 teaspoon [5 mL] soy sauce
  • Monosodium glutamate [optional]
  • Yuzu peel [or lemon peel]
  • Soften wakame in water.
  • Cut off the hard part in centre.
  • Cut remaining wakame to 2-inch [5 cm] pieces; reserve.
  • Cut fish into pieces about 1/4 inch [1 cm] thick.
  • Sprinkle with a little salt and sake, and stand for 10 minutes.
  • Coat with cornflour.
  • Put into boiling water piece by piece and boil.
  • Heat fish stock.
  • Add salt to taste and reserved wakame.
  • When soup boils, add soy sauce.
  • Monosodium glutamate will improve the taste.
  • Place fish and wakame in soup bowls.
  • Pour hot soup on top.
  • Put small piece of yuzu peel or lemon peel in for fragrance.