steamed egg & vegetable dish
- Serves: 4
- Calories: 167 kcal
- Total Time: 35 m
- Prep: 15 m
- Cook: 20 m
- Japanese: Chawan-mushi

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ingredients:
- 5 1/4 ounces chicken thigh
- 4 shrimps
- 1 3/4 ounces spinach
- 3 eggs
- 1 1/2 cups bonito soup stock
- 1/2 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt

step 1:
Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces. Hull shell and devein the shrimp. Cut off the stems of the spinach and wash. Cut the spinach into 2 in. long sections.

step 2:
Beat the eggs in a bowl.

step 3:
Add soy sauce and salt to the bonito soup stock. Add to the eggs and mix.

step 4:
Put several chicken pieces, one shrimp and some spinach into each of four heat resistant cups.

step 5:
Add the bonito soup stock and egg mixture (Step 3) until each cup is 4/5 full.

step 6:
Cover the cups with aluminum foil.

step 7:
Fill a medium-size pan 1/3 full with water. Bring water to a boil, add the cups and cover the pan. Boil over high heat for 3 minutes. Then reduce heat and simmer over a low flame for 8 minutes.

comment:
The bonito soup stock smells good and also goes well with other ingredients such as mushrooms, white fish and ginkgo nuts.

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