Jenny’s Dashi Soup

Thursday, Jun. 4, 2009 | 50 Comments

A lot of people asked for the recipe to the quick, low calorie soup I made on Sunday. So here’s a recipe! This is an extremely simple soup you can customize to fit your own taste. The major components are dashi and boiled cabbage. I used dried shiitake dashi powder. However, dashi is simple to make. Here are a few recipes for shiitake (or mushroom) dashi. I prefer shiitake dashi, but you can use kombu dashi as well. This web site sells some instant dashi packets. I also used somen noodles but you could substitute with soba or udon noodles if you like.

Also you could boil the cabbage with the dumplings if you don’t have boiled cabbage ready. I tend to boil whole heads of cabbage at a time so I just add it in at the end.

Let’s get started!