soup with vegetables & chicken

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ingredients:

• 5 1/4 ounces boneless chicken breast
• 4 1/2 ounces carrot
• 2 1/2 ounces spinach
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• a little salt
• 2 1/2 cups bonito soup stock
• 1 teaspoon potato starch (katakuriko)
• 1 teaspoon water (for dissolving potato starch)

step 1:

Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces. Cut the carrot into about 1/2 in. wide pieces and cut lengthwise in half. Cut off the stems of the spinach and wash it. Cut the spinach into 2 in. long pieces.

step 2:

Add the bonito soup stock, chicken and carrot. Cook about for 20 minutes on medium heat until the vegetables become soft.

step 3:

Add the spinach, salt and soy sauce. Bring to a boil.

step 4:

Dissolve the potato starch in water. Add the dissolved potato starch to the pot. Stir a few times.