Make Delicious Savory Egg Custard (Chawanmushi) Using Instant Soup Mix
Make Delicious Savory Egg Custard (Chawanmushi) Using Instant Soup Mix

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, make delicious savory egg custard (chawanmushi) using instant soup mix. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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Chawanmushi is a Japanese egg custard appetizer which consists of ginkgo nuts, shiitake mushrooms, kamaboko (Japanese fish cake), and an egg mixture flavored with dashi, soy sauce, and mirin. The egg custard is steamed in a dainty little tea cup and often served as a cold or hot appetizer. Chawanmushi is a savory egg custard that is made by whisking together broth, like chicken broth or dashi stock (Japanese soup stock, which can be made from seaweed or fish) and eggs. The mixture is then poured into small bowls or teacups over any number of tasty morsels from ginkgo nuts to shiitake mushrooms, chicken, seafood, or other delights.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have make delicious savory egg custard (chawanmushi) using instant soup mix using 14 ingredients and 20 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Make Delicious Savory Egg Custard (Chawanmushi) Using Instant Soup Mix:
  1. Take 2 Egg (extra-large)
  2. Get 2 packets Instant clear soup (osuimono) mix (I recommend using matsutake mushroom-flavored ones)
  3. Prepare 4 pieces Chicken (bite-size)
  4. Get 1 dash Soy Sauce (to marinate the chicken)
  5. Take 300 ml Water (to add to the egg)
  6. Prepare 100 ml How Water (to add to the soup stock)
  7. Make ready 1 dash Sugar (for easy mixing of the egg)
  8. Take 1 pinch Salt
  9. Make ready Please add the following if you have them:
  10. Make ready 1 Gingko nuts or corn kernels
  11. Prepare 1 Mixed seafood
  12. Get 4 cuts Imitation crab meat or naruto
  13. Make ready 1 Shiitake or shimeji mushrooms
  14. Take 1 Mitsuba

Once you have mixed everything together, strain the mix through a very fine sieve to make sure that the mixture is perfectly smooth. Mix dashi stock, soy sauce, mirin and salt until salt is disolved. Add the beaten egg and mix well. Place a sieve over a measuring cup or a bowl and pour the egg mixture through the sieve.

Instructions to make Make Delicious Savory Egg Custard (Chawanmushi) Using Instant Soup Mix:
  1. The amount of water you add depends on the size of the egg. (The brown egg is small). Please reduce the amount of water if the egg is smaller. The egg to water (+hot water) ratio = 1:3
  2. If using extra-large eggs, add 200 ml of water and 1 packet of soup mix. For medium-sized eggs, use 180 ml of water (including the hot water)
  3. Marinate the chicken in soy sauce (the amount in the picture serves 6). Marinate for about 30 minutes to remove the gamey odor of the chicken.
  4. In the meantime, use a small container to dissolve the clear soup mix in hot water. Leave to cool. I used a packet meant for commercial restaurant use (1 serving packet makes 150 ml of soup).
  5. Crack the egg, add the sugar and mix well (but don't whip any air into it). Once the sugar has dissolved, add water and mix well. Strain the egg mixture through a coarse sieve.
  6. Attention! Use a coarse-mesh sieve. It's easier to strain the mixture using a coarse sieve rather than a fine-mesh sieve, and easier to clean too. The reason the mixture is strained is to make it smooth.
  7. Another reason to strain the egg mixture is to remove the chalaza (the opaque white bit that attaches the yolk to the egg white) as well as any bits of shell. So be sure to strain it - using a coarse sieve is fine.
  8. Add the strained egg mixture to the cooled clear soup. This time, I have strained the egg directly into the soup. Add salt to taste.
  9. About the shiitake mushrooms: I bought these when they were cheap and froze them. Cut the stems off and put them into bags without washing. You can slice them thinly without having to defrost them.
  10. Place the chicken and other ingredients into 5 chawanmushi containers, then gently pour in the egg mixture. This time I used only chicken and shiitake mushrooms, but I added the ingredients in the soup mix so it's ok.
  11. ~Add if you have these~: Gingko nuts (10) Put them in an envelope (one from junk mail or something that you'll throw away anyway) and fold the envelope closed 2-3 times. Microwave for 1 minute.
  12. You can also add peeled and cleaned shrimp or scallops (from a bag of mixed frozen seafood or so), corn kernels, mitsuba, etc. if you have them too.
  13. If the custard starts to form bubbles, use a spoon to remove them. Fill a pot or frying pan that has a lid with water to come halfway up the sides of the chawanmushi cups.
  14. Cover the frying pan or pot with a lid, but leave a small opening. You can do this by sticking a chopstick in between the lid and the rim of the pot or pan. To prevent condensation from dripping onto the chawanmushi, you can also wrap the lid in a towel. Be careful that the cloth won't catch fire.
  15. Start on high heat. When the lid starts making a clattering sound, it means has come to a boil. Once it starts boiling, turn the heat down to medium low and cook for 10 minutes (you should be able to hear little bits of clattering).
  16. The chawanmushi that are at the end of the pan where the lid is held open won't set well, so after 3 minutes switch the position of the chopstick to the other side of the pot or pan. They are done when clear liquid runs out of the hole when you poke them with a chopstick.
  17. I cut up the chicken for chawanmushi into small pieces, sprinkle it with soy sauce and freeze it. Just take it out 30 minutes before you need it, and it will have defrosted and is already pre-flavored.
  18. This tastes great with a lot of ingredients added, or just a few added. Please note that f you don't add chicken, there won't be any clear liquid when you poke the custard!
  19. It is really delicious with just the salt in the soup stock. The fragrance and flavor of the matsutake mushroom is really addictive.
  20. For reference, when I used a 6-serving soup mix packet, I needed 4 eggs and 700 ml of water (+ hot water).

Add the beaten egg and mix well. Place a sieve over a measuring cup or a bowl and pour the egg mixture through the sieve. This will remove the lumps of egg white and improve custard consistency. Chawanmushi (Savory Egg Custard/茶碗蒸し) is a delicate and savory Japanese appetizer that we are familiar with. It is prepared by steaming egg with dashi stock in a small dainty Japanese teacup and filled with ingredients such as chicken, prawns, kamaboko, mushrooms, and mitsuba.

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