For Doll Festival: Clam Clear Broth Soup

Name: For Doll Festival: Clam Clear Broth Soup
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 Hamaguri clams; 800 ml Water; 1 tbsp Usukuchi soy sauce; 1 tsp Coarse salt; 3 tbsp Sake; 1 one 5 cm square Kombu; 1 dash Mitsuba; 1 dash Wheat bran (optional)

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

We don't have any girls in our family, but I make this for my mother's birthday every year, which is the same day as the Doll Festival.

Perform Steps 6-7 quickly. After removing the sand from the shells, they will be quite slippery when you wash them, but please wash them very well. There was one time where I got my finger caught in a shell! Be careful! For 4 servings. Recipe by sweet_rose

We don't have any girls in our family, but I make this for my mother's birthday every year, which is the same day as the Doll Festival.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

We don't have any girls in our family, but I make this for my mother's birthday every year, which is the same day as the Doll Festival.

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Ingredients

4 servings

8Hamaguri clams
800 mlWater
1 tbspUsukuchi soy sauce
1 tspCoarse salt
3 tbspSake
1one 5 cm square Kombu
1 dashMitsuba
1 dashWheat bran (optional)

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Steps

1

Put the water and coarse salt into a large bowl. Add the clams to remove the sand. Let them soak anywhere for about half a day, or at least 3-4 hours.
2

Cover with a newspaper because it's probably better if they're in a dark place Once the sand is removed, rub the shells together and rinse.
3

Place the clams and the water from the ingredient list into a pot. Add the konbu and sake and turn the heat to medium-low.
4

Once it has begun to boil and the shells open, lower the heat to very low right away and remove the konbu and clams.
5

Skim off any scum from the surface and add the usukuchi soy sauce and salt. Give it a quick stir and then gently return the clams to the pot. It's done.
6

Right before eating, garnish with mitsuba. The wheat gluten (fu) is optional.
7

I suggest you cut alternating slits in the konbu.
8

Note: To make the salt water for removing the sand from the clams, I use 500 ml of water with 15 g of salt.