Its a common simple traditional side dish that tastes absolutely delicious, rich in flavor from being soaked in broth and soy sauce.
Ingredients:
- 1lb spinach
- pinch of salt
- 2 Tbsp soy sauce
- 5 tbsp of dashi soup stock (seaweed broth)
- 4 Tbsp katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes)
Directions
- Wash the spinach thoroughly Boil lots of water in a large pot, add a pinch of salt.
- Blanch the spinach by dunking in all the spinach and rotating quickly to ensure even blanching, do this for about a minute.
- Drain and soak the spinach in cold water to cool Squeeze the excess water out of the spinach, bunch by bunch.
- Mix the soy sauce and the dashi together in a bowl.
- Put spinach in a serving bowl and pour mixture of soy sauce and dashi. Soak for 20 minutes. Garnish with a bit of roasted katsuobushi to enhance the flavor.
Serving Size: 4
Prep time: 10 minutes