Recipe: Perfect Golden Colored Basic Bonito Dashi

Golden Colored Basic Bonito Dashi.

You can have Golden Colored Basic Bonito Dashi using 3 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Golden Colored Basic Bonito Dashi

1. It's 8 1/2 grams of Kombu.
2. Prepare 17 grams of Bonito flakes.
3. You need 850 ml of Water.

Golden Colored Basic Bonito Dashi step by step

1. Soak the kombu in the listed amount of water for over 30 minutes..
2. Heat the kombu in the water from Step 1, bring to a boil over high heat, removing the kombu right before it comes to a boil..
3. Once it boils, add the bonito flakes and immerse them with chopsticks. Turn off heat once it comes to a boil again..
4. Skim off the scum, wait until the bonito flakes slightly sink, then line a colander or strainer with a paper towel or cotton cloth before lightly straining out the liquid. Do not squeeze out the remaining moisture..
5. It's ready to go. When using this dashi for seasoned rice dishes ("takikomi gohan"), be sure to allow it to cool first. This is handy if you freeze it or keep a stock in the fridge..
6. To use the remaining kombu and bonito flakes to make tsukudani, see. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/150280-made-with-leftover-dashi-stock-ingredients-quick-kombu-and-bonito-flake-tsukudani.