Kombu Chicken Soup to Keep You Warm during the Holiday Seasons

Wondering what you should make for your family gathering this Christmas? Here is a warm and lovely recipe for you and your family to enjoy during this Festive Season! This chicken soup is made with a special broth using Kombu, a Japanese seaweed to give it a unique taste!

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Recipe

How to Make Kombu Chicken Soup

This lovely soup recipe is flexible and can be made by changing the vegetables or source of proteins (i.e shrimp or fish). We hope this soup will keep you and your loved ones warm!
4.34 from 6 votes
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings 2 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 2 sheets dried kombu
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 2 chicken breasts You could replace this with shrimps or fish
  • spinach
  • 2 carrots
  • 50 gr shiitake mushrooms
  • 2 tbsp roasted sesame seeds
  • 1 corn
  • okra

Instructions
 

  • Gently clean the kombu with a damp cloth, remember not to remove the white powder as this is what contributes to the unique umami flavour of kombu.
  • Add kombu and water into a sauce pan. Bring Kombu to a bare simmer for 10 minutes. Extract the water and filter it through a fine-mesh into another sauce pan.
  • Add mirin, soy sauce, salt and sugar and mushroom into the broth and bring to a simmer for another 10 minutes. Cover the sauce pan with a lid. In the mean time, chop the chicken breasts and orka into smaller pieces, extract the corn kernels.
  • Add the chicken breasts, spinach, carrots, corn kernels and orka into the broth. Cook for 5-7 minutes.
  • The broth is ready for serving. Add in the roasted sesame seeds when served!
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