rice soup with wakame & mushrooms

ingredients:

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.