rice soup with wakame & mushrooms
- Serves: 2
- Calories: 205 kcal
- Total Time: 2 h 10 m
- Prep: 2 h 0 m
- Cook: 10 m
- Japanese: Wakame to kinoko-zosui

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ingredients:
- 1 1/2 teaspoons dried wakame
- 3 ounces shiitake mushrooms
- 2 ounces package shimeji mushrooms
- 1 ounce package enoki (snow puff)
- mushrooms
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 servings steamed rice
- 2 1/2 cups sea tangle soup stock

step 1:
Soak dried wakame seaweed in water for about 15 minutes to reconstitute it. Drain the water.

step 2:
Wipe the shiitake mushrooms with a wet paper towel. Cut off the stems and slice the caps. Cut off the roots of the enoki mushrooms 1 in. from the end and cut in half. Cut off the roots of the shimeji mushrooms.

step 3:
Boil the sea tangle soup stock and add the mushrooms. Boil a couple of minutes.

step 4:
Add the salt and soy sauce. Then, mix in the rice and wakame. Cover and boil a couple of minutes. Remove from the heat.

Pour into serving bowls.
comment:
Mushrooms suit the slightly salty taste of wakame. In Japan, this soup is often served to people who are ill because it is easily digested and very healthy.

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