Highlights
- Essential Japanese seasoning and broth
- Instantly adds umami to dishes
- Convenient and easy to use
- Flavorful blend of fish, kelp and shiitake maushrooms
Dashi is a delicately infused broth that is essential to creating umami in many Japanese dishes. Crafted with a harmonious blend of smoky, umami-rich bonito flakes and sardines, premium kombu seaweed, and earthy shiitake mushrooms. our Artisan Umami Dashi makes it easy to create a clean yet luxurious and balanced dashi. Simply bring to a boil one of the convenient, individually packaged tea bags and you'll have a golden hued broth with a deeply savory aroma will elevate any dish with an authentic yet layered complexity. It serves as the perfect foundation for soups, sauces, and stews, enhancing flavors without overpowering them.
Size: 30 x 8g tea bags
Storage: Room temperature.
Ingredients: Flavor ingredients (bonito karebushi shavings, boiled dried sardines, bonito flakes extract, bonito flakes powder, kelp, dried shiitake mushrooms) (domestic), starch decomposition products, yeast extract, salt, fermented seasonings, soy sauce (may contain wheat and soybeans)
DISCLAIMER: We provide ingredients and common allergens based on the packaging as a reference only. Please consume with caution based on your own individual health concerns as we cannot guarantee the presence or lack of certain ingredients, allergens and/or animal products.
Suggested Uses: How to make basic dashi: Add one dashi tea bag of dashi to 400ml of water and bring to a boil. Simmer over low heat for about 2 mins then remove the dashi bag. For a stronger dashi, use two dashi tea bag in 500ml of water. Since the dashi doesn’t contain any preservatives we recommend using it within the same day. However, it can be frozen (up to 3 weeks) to preserve. Try freezing leftover dashi in an ice cube tray for easy-to-use small portions.
This prepared dashi is great for making traditional Japanese dishes like takomi gohan, dashimaki tamago, miso soup, chawan mushi, and more. Additionally, the contents of the dashi packet can also be used as seasoning. Try mixing it into okonomiyaki batter, sprinkling it on stir-fried foods like fried rice and yakisoba, or serving it alongside tempura.
Substitutions: Substitute for seafood broths/stock. Can also be used directly from the packet as an umami-rich seasoning sprinkled on stir-fried foods.
Recipes:
Tomato Soup with Dashi
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Marc Matsumoto's Dashi Chazuke
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Dashi Zosui (Japanese Rice Soup)