soup with beaten egg & spinach

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ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 2 ounces fresh spinach
• 2 cups water (for boiling spinach)
• 1 teaspoon soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 1/3 cups bonito soup stock
• 2 teaspoons potato starch (katakuriko)
• 2 teaspoons water (for dissolving potato starch)

step 1:

Cut off the stems of the spinach and wash. Place the 500 ml of water in a pan. Bring to a boil and add the spinach. Boil for one and a half minutes.

step 2:

After boiling, drain the spinach and immediately immerse in cold water to keep the green color.

step 3:

Drain the cold water from the spinach. Squeeze out any excess water with your hands. Cut spinach into 1 in.-long pieces.

step 4:

Beat the egg.

step 5:

Prepare the bonito soup stock in a pot. Bring to a boil and add the spinach, soy sauce and salt.

step 6:

Dissolve the potato starch in the 2 teaspoons of water. Add the dissolved potato starch to the pot. Stir a few times.

step 7:

Add the beaten egg. Mix a couple of times. Remove from the heat.