Quick and Easy Bento - Okra and Shio-Konbu with Bonito Flakes
Quick and Easy Bento - Okra and Shio-Konbu with Bonito Flakes

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Sliced okra topped with bonito flakes and soy sauce is a bit crunchy and sticky. Add a small amount of soy sauce. Mix well so that bonito flakes and okra combine well with soy sauce.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook quick and easy bento - okra and shio-konbu with bonito flakes using 3 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Quick and Easy Bento - Okra and Shio-Konbu with Bonito Flakes:
  1. Make ready 4 Okra
  2. Make ready 2 tsp Shio-kombu
  3. Get 2 tsp Bonito flakes

Bonito dashi is one of the most important ingredients in Japanese cooking. This soup stock was traditionally made by stewing bonito fish flakes in water, and then filtering Nowadays much of Japan gets their bonito dashi from easy-to-use sachets and granules. Since kombu and bonito flakes are so expensive outside of Japan, it So far I have been using the water that I have used to soak Shitake mushrooms in, but I know this will be just as easy and probably taste better! Bonito flakes and konbu do not turn rancid since they don't contain oils (or very little).

Instructions to make Quick and Easy Bento - Okra and Shio-Konbu with Bonito Flakes:
  1. Boil the okra. You could also microwave! Slice into rounds.
  2. Mix all the ingredients, and it's done.
  3. You can substitute with cabbage.

Bonito flakes, also known as katsuobushi, are little wisps of dried, fermented skipjack tuna (or in some cases, the cheaper bonito), used in Japanese cooking to for their smoky, intensely savory, slightly fishy flavor. The flavor is somewhere in between anchovies and bacon, but much more delicate than either. Bonito flakes - known as katsuobushi in Japanese - are a strange food upon first sight. They are known to move or dance when used as a topping on foods such as okonomiyaki and takoyaki. It can be an odd sight upon first viewing if moving food makes you squeamish.

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