Farmhouse Recipe: All-Purpose Dashi Soy Sauce

Name: Farmhouse Recipe: All-Purpose Dashi Soy Sauce
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 200 ml Soy sauce; 200 ml Mirin; 20 grams Dried fish flakes (refer to Step 1)

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Because storebought mentsuyu doesn't have a strong umami flavor, I made this homemade mentsuyu using mackerel flakes. They are used for a very strong umami flavor to make soba dipping sauce.

The mentsuyu noodle dipping sauce you get at soba restaurants uses mackerel flakes; that's why it's so tasty. These flakes give out so much umami flavor.
If using this as mentsuyu, make sure to dilute as follows:
Pouring sauce - 1 part all-purpose soy sauce : 4 - 5 parts water
Dipping sauce - 1 part all-purpose soy sauce : 2 - 3 parts water. Recipe by FarmersK

Because storebought mentsuyu doesn't have a strong umami flavor, I made this homemade mentsuyu using mackerel flakes. They are used for a very strong umami flavor to make soba dipping sauce.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Because storebought mentsuyu doesn't have a strong umami flavor, I made this homemade mentsuyu using mackerel flakes. They are used for a very strong umami flavor to make soba dipping sauce.

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Ingredients

200 mlSoy sauce
200 mlMirin
20 gramsDried fish flakes (refer to Step 1)

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Steps

1

Here's some roughly scraped dried fish flakes. It's a mixture of mackerel, sardines, and horse mackerel. You can use mackerel flakes if you'd like. I bought this for 258 yen per 150g at a supermarket.
2

Add mirin to a saucepan and boil over medium heat to evaporate the alcohol.
3

Add soy sauce and bring it to a boil. Put the mixed flakes in a tea bag because they release scum, then add to the saucepan.
4

Simmer for 10 minutes over low heat. You MUST simmer this. After 10 minutes, turn the heat off and set aside to cool down. That's it.
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For homemade nametake mushrooms, simmer enoki mushrooms in this all-purpose soy sauce with vinegar, and sugar..
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This will keep for 2 weeks in the fridge.