Ozoni for the New Year!!!!!

Happy New Year from the Azuki BeaN Mamas!!!!!!!!!
Chef Azuki and Blogger BeaN love sharing recipes with you all year long.  Can't believe
another year has flown by.  Wishing you all magical adventures in 2015!!!!!!!!

Here's a recipe for Ozoni Soup.  It's sure to help you start an incredible year!!!!!!!

Ozoni Soup

Ingredients:
5 C water (for broth)
1/3 C sake
2 tsp hondashi
1 tsp salt
1 tsp soy sauce
2-3 C water (for mochi)
Mochi
Carrots & mitsuba leaves (Japanese wild parsley)- for garnish


Directions:
1.  Add water, sake, hondashi, salt and soy sauce in a pot
2.  Boil all together
3.  Meanwhile in a separate pot boil 2-3 C of water (this separate step keeps the soup base from
      getting cloudy)
4.  Add mochi and remove when soft
5.  Add the delicious mochi in serving bowls
6.  Pour the broth over it
7.  Garnish with cooked carrots shaped like flowers (can cut them out with cookie cutters or by hand)
8.  Add some mitsuba leaves (spinach or napa cabbage can be used in place of the mitsuba.
    Try mitsuba from the Japanese market if you have the time though.)


It's so beautiful, delicious and good luck too!  Eat the mochi in small bites and chew carefully. Maybe we're supposed to eat this soup to start our year out being careful and aware ; )  Our elders and young children should be especially careful or avoid the mochi and just have the broth.

BeaNspiration: Bringing back traditions to your holidays can be informational and fun!!!!!!