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Traditional Japanese Breakfast

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Cultural note: Ichiju-sansai — 'one soup, three dishes' — frames the classic breakfast: rice, miso soup, grilled fish and small sides.
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Traditional Japanese Breakfast

15 minPrep
30 minCook
2Servings
3/5Difficulty
5/5Impressiveness

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Ingredients

  • 300 g short-grain rice
  • 500 ml dashi
  • 2 tbsp miso
  • 100 g silken tofu
  • 1 tbsp dried wakame
  • 2 fillets salted salmon
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • pickles, nori

Instructions

  1. Rinse and cook the rice.
  2. Grill salmon 8–10 minutes.
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  1. Make tamagoyaki from eggs, sugar and soy in rolled layers.
  2. Heat dashi with tofu and wakame; dissolve miso off the heat.
  3. Serve each item in its own small dish.

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