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I hate to throw away the greens from the turnips because they taste so good! One of my favorite ways to cook is to make a "Ohitashi" dish which is simply cooking vegetables in a light Japanese broth ("dashi"). The broth is the made flavor, so it's best to make a good tasting homemade broth (not instant!). I'll show you how to make a broth with katsuo-bushi (bonito flakes) here ^^

This recipe is very Japanese dish, like one of the Japanese kaiseki. Simmered in lightly seasoned broth for a little bit longer time (about 20 ~ 30 mins) with a low heat. Eat with the thickened broth. For your taste, when thickening, you can add a small quantity of sake and soy sauce. It's also good to have cool tofu with warm thickened broth.

I wanted to eat salty nikujaga since I saw it on TV. The TV version didn't use any oil and was simply seasoned with salt.Since salt didn't give enough taste, I added different seasonings and added a few other twists.Be careful not to overcook or else the ingredients will break apart.This is delicious served with butter on top. Recipe by Iku..

I tried making soup using Jyongri's "Moist Boiled Chicken", but I put in too many vegetables. I simmered them in the soup, and they were delicious!! That's why I decided to upload the recipe.Adding chicken or pork will be tasty as well.Note: The steps are the same but the ingredient amounts are not entirely accurate, so I will modify it later. I just uploaded the recipe to remember. Recipe by kbitch

ThIs is a great light summer dish, I used sea bass in this photo. The broth is to die for.

Soup scooped over rice, that's how we like it! Try this healthy and light dish especially on chilly days. Although we eat it during summer too. HeeeheeYou can get a Tamarind soup base (Knorr) at Asian or Filipino shops or you can also use the Thai Tamarind paste :) I have not tried it with Lemon or Lime, I think it would work, as the soup needs to have a hint of acidity/sourness...lemme know?#veggies

The meat will not stick to the bottom of the pot because of the thick broth, but that also makes it hard to pick up with chopsticks. So I skewered the meat to make it easy to take out of the pot. This is delicious with low-cal meat such as chicken tenders, shrimp, octopus, or seafood. The dashi broth is good for adding noodles or rice at the end to make "shime".-Chop the vegetables finely.-The broth is thick, so be careful and keep an eye on the heat.-Thinly slice the Japanese leeks and shiitake mushrooms. You can use any vegetables or other ingredients you like, but if you want to add them without blanching first, choose vegetables that don't release a lot of scum. Lettuce, mizuna, and chrysanthemum greens will cook quickly. Recipe by putimiko

Broth and fonds are extracts from the flavors of leftover bones and carcasses from meats.After the carcass has been simmered, the liquids are frozen to make soups and gravies, and the bones are disposed of in the garden fermenter that turns bones into compost.#GoldenApron23

We grow a type of celery that has a strong beef flavor, grandpa brought it over from Russia, kept the roots wet in his hankerchief in his pocket. It is a salt substitute. You can grow it indoors in a planter pot, it is called lovage. We harvest it year round, but when lovage bolts, we cut the stalks and make a supply of vegetable broth concentrate with lovage, meat flavored mushrooms, celery, water cress, radishes, winter carrots, fermented beets and celeriac, mace, brewers yeast, onion, summer savory, parsley and tomatoes. No salt, no monosodium glutamate. We freeze this concentrate in ice cube trays and use two cubes per quart of water to make vegetable soup.

This is our family recipe for simmered greens in a mild broth (nibitashi).To achieve the classic Kyoto-style lightly colored broth, I used usukuchi soy sauce. Regular soy sauce works as well. Recipe by Pukuttopukumaru

Got some spaghetti in the pantry and seafood( various shellfish and soft fish) in the freezer to make pasta, accidentally poured in some coconut milk, turned out into a broth... Haha.. Didn't exactly know why it happened .. But "everything happens for a cause ".. And it turned out to be a hit in the family !!