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da·shi

 (dä′shē)
n.
A clear soup stock used in Japanese cuisine, typically made from kombu and flakes of dried skipjack tuna.

[Japanese, from dashi, a taking out, extracting, verbal noun of dasu, to take out, bring out, from Old Japanese idasu, causative of idu, to go out, come out.]
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dashi

(ˈdaʃɪ)
n
(Cookery) a clear stock made from dried fish and kelp
[C20: Japanese]
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dashi

A clear stock made from tuna and seaweed. Used in Japanese cooking.
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Her recipe book (published by Ryland Peters & Small, PS16.99) includes the basics, such as how to season food the Japanese way and prepare dashi stock, as well as tips on how to present your dishes in the traditional way.
A recipe for dashi -- the base for many Japanese dishes -- reveals a secret key to getting that something that makes it taste authentic, setting readers up to produce restaurant-level miso soup and ramen.
Steamed ground duck with dashi and wasabi was a hefty dumpling in eggy custard while his special seasonal appetizers and sushi consisted of bite-sized portions of grilled chicken, savory bonito, and eel rolls.
Now racing for Team Alpinestars MM189, the 2016 and 2018 national champion posted the quickest lap time of 1:34.351 before checking home a huge 29.088 seconds clear of former titleholder Dashi Watanabe on an Aprilia RSV4 of Team WRD Bikerbox and 1:13.705 minutes ahead of third-placer Pocholo Panlilio on a Ducati V4.
In 1908, Japanese chemistry professor Kikunae Ikeda noticed that certain foods had a savory taste--including Parmesan cheese, ripe tomatoes, dry-aged beef, and kombu dashi, a broth made from dried kelp that's essential to Japanese cooking.
savoury pancakes HIROSHIMA-INGREDIENTS: (Makes two okonomiyaki, which is actually likely to be enough for four people) 100g plain flour; 120ml dashi; 3 eggs; 1/2 hispi or flat cabbage, finely chopped; 100g bean sprouts; 150-200g tin of sweetcorn, drained; 4 spring onions, thinly sliced; about 40g beni shoga (pickled ginger, available on amazon); vegetable oil; 6 rashers streaky bacon; 200g prepared squid, scored and cut into 1-cm wide strips; 2 portions fresh yakisoba/egg noodles (or dried noodles, parboiled); about 150ml okonomi sauce (available on amazon); Kewpie mayo (100g mayo, 1/4tsp dashi, 1/4tsp Dijon mustard, salt and white pepper), as needed; a few pinches of aonori (dried seaweed); a few pinches of sesame seeds; handful of katsuobushi (dried smoked tuna, available on amazon).
The noodles were appealingly chewy while the dashi broth to be fairly bland while only slightly sweet.
There's a bowl of dashi dipping sauce, another of miso soup and a third of cold curly pickled cucumber.
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