How to Cook Yummy Magical Japanese stock : Mentsuyu

Magical Japanese stock : Mentsuyu.

You can have Magical Japanese stock : Mentsuyu using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Magical Japanese stock : Mentsuyu

1. Prepare 15 of *15cm Kombu seaweed.
2. It's 10 pieces of small size dried shiitake mushroom.
3. It's 300 ml of warm water.
4. Prepare 300 ml of mirin/ rice wine.
5. It's 300 ml of soysauce.
6. Prepare 20 g of bonito flakes (if vegan no needed).

Magical Japanese stock : Mentsuyu step by step

1. Place kombu and dried shiitake mushroom into a bowl. Pour warm water over it. Leave minimum 30 mins to get all soaked and bigger..
2. Once kombu and dried shiitake mushroom has soaked, start boiling mirin/ rice wine in the pot. Cook with low heat until the line started to appear..
3. Put whole kombu, shiitake with dashi (in the bowl), soy sauce and bonito flakes. Medium heat. Cook until started to bubble..
4. Put down to low heat and cook for 5 mins..
5. Turn off the heat and leave it for a night..
6. Strain all the liquid into the bottle. I use empty beer bottle..
7. Enjoy! I have some recipes that I used this Mentsuyu..
8. Me turn on the right top. Leftover scraps can use for other dishes. I make umami frikake with bonito flakes. Mushroom can be used in lots of Asian dishes. Total flavor bomb. I cook rice with this kombu. Gives rice deepen flavor..