Easiest Way to Cook Perfect Basic Dashi Stock for the First Pressing

Basic Dashi Stock for the First Pressing.

You can have Basic Dashi Stock for the First Pressing using 3 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Basic Dashi Stock for the First Pressing

1. You need 1400 ml of Water.
2. It's 15 of cm Kombu.
3. You need 30 grams of Bonito flakes.

Basic Dashi Stock for the First Pressing step by step

1. Wipe off the konbu seaweed with a dish cloth. Put the water in a pot, add the konbu seaweed and let it sit for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Turn on the heat and remove the kombu just before the water boils..
2. Turn off the heat for a moment. Add the bonito flakes and turn on the heat again. Simmer for 1-2 minutes and turn off the heat. Skim the scum off the surface..
3. When the bonito flakes sink to the bottom of the pot, pour through a fine-mesh strainer lined with paper towels..
4. You can make niban dashi (second dashi), by adding more bonito flakes to the konbu and bonito flakes you just used..