How to Prepare Tasty Dried Small Sardines, Bonito Flakes, and Kombu Dashi Stock

Dried Small Sardines, Bonito Flakes, and Kombu Dashi Stock.

You can have Dried Small Sardines, Bonito Flakes, and Kombu Dashi Stock using 4 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Dried Small Sardines, Bonito Flakes, and Kombu Dashi Stock

1. Prepare 1 3/5 liter of Water.
2. Prepare 20 grams of Niboshi (head removed and gutted).
3. You need 10 grams of Bonito flakes.
4. You need 1 of Kombu (5 cm square).

Dried Small Sardines, Bonito Flakes, and Kombu Dashi Stock instructions

1. Remove the heads and dark parts of the guts from the niboshi. Break in half..
2. Gently wipe the kombu with kitchen paper. Add the water, niboshi and kombu in a pot. Leave overnight if possible..
3. Heat the pot over a medium heat, remove the kombu when it floats to the surface. After the water has come to a boil, simmer over low heat for about 5 minutes while scooping off the scum from the surface of the water..
4. Add 2 tablespoons of water (not listed), turn off the heat. Add the bonito flakes and turn the heat back on again. When it comes to a boil, turn off the heat..
5. After the bonito flakes sink to the bottom, pour the dashi stock through a sieve to strain..