How to cook dashi of Yamagata local dish?

What is dashi of Yamagata local dish?

I’m introducing “Dashi(だし）”!

When you hear the word dashi, does it remind you of soup, seasoning？

Correct！

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Let us introduce you to Yamagata Prefecture's local dish, dashi!

“Dashi" is a classic summer local dish in Yamagata Prefecture

Summer vegetables are chopped into small pieces and Mixed in a soy sauce-based liquid such as “mentsuyu”

My pickling liquid is homemade.

Soy Sauce
Mirin (sweet cooking rice wine)
Ichiban Dashi (kelp and dried bonito flakes)

Dashi is delicious with white rice and tofu, Udon!

Summer vegetables and soy sauce-based taste go well with white rice.

Ingredients 

【Cooking Level】 ★★☆☆☆	About 2 servings
＜Ingredient＞	<Quantity>
Eggplant	1
Cucumber	1
Okura (as you like)	40g to 50g
Macrophyll（Ooba）(as you like)	5 pieces
Myoga (as you like)	3 pieces
＜Seasonings＞	<Quantity>
Mentsuyu	45g
Even if you don’t have mentsuyu, If you have the following can make
Ichiban dashi (kelp and bonito dasi)	150g
Soy sauce	40g
Mirin	40g

How to cook?

1: Wash and cut vegetables into 0.5~1 cm dice.
*Okura is boiled about 2 to 3 minute, eggplant is soak water about 5 minute after the cut

2:If you have Mentsuyu, soak in Mentsuyu. If you do not have mentsuyu, please make homemade mentsuyu from the following

3:Soak for half a day  in the refrigerator after that you can best eat it.


---Even if you don't have mentsuyu, If you have the following process can make handmade Mentsuyu---

1:Turn on the medium heat a pot and skim off the alcohol from the mirin.

2: Add soy sauce and Ichiban　dashi  (kelp and bonito dashi) 
*If using powdered dashi powder, add the amount indicated on the package plus softened water
If using powdered soup stock, pay attention to the amount of salt!

3: Turn off the heat, cool in the refrigerator

Good combination

＜How to goes well mixed ingridents＞

・Onion
・Chinese yam
・Natto
・Root of the wakame seaweed
・White sesame
・Bonito flake

＜How to eat＞

・Japanese cooked rice
・Tofu
・So-men
・Soba
・Udon

etc...

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