Chawanmushi, a custard-like dish using egg and ingredients

Meal

Chawanmushi is a custard-like dish, in which beaten eggs and dashi are put in a cylindrical cup, and then ingredients are added and steamed.

The taste of the ingredients, the taste of the dashi, and the taste of the eggs combine to make it very delicious. Eat warm food with a spoon.

This menu is often served as a kaiseki meal, but it can be ordered separately at a Conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain or a family restaurant for Japanese food.

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What is Chawanmushi and can I eat it?

Materials of Chawanmushi

Eggs, soy sauce, sashi, salt, sugar and other ingredients introduced in “Meal Description”

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Chawanmushi is a typical Japanese dish

Chawanmushi is a Japanese dish in which a cylindrical cup is filled with beaten egg and dashi, and then ingredients are added and steamed in a steamer.

Add 3 soup stock to 1 egg, mix and steam slowly to get just the right hardness. If the soup stock is too much or too little, it will not harden well.

The following food are often used as ingredients for chawanmushi. Not all of these are included, but some of them are used.

  • Shiitake mushroom
  • Maitake mushroom
  • Ginkgo nuts
  • Yurine: The root of a plant of the lily family called Ko-oniyuri.
  • Chicken meat
  • Kamaboko (fish cake)
  • Small shrimp
  • Grilled conger eel
  • Boiled small scallop

Also before boiling, put the following food on the top to add color and fragrance.

  • Mitsuba: an umbelliferous plant resembling stone parsley
  • Yuzu peel: peel of small citrns fruit

Try to eat Chawanmushi!

How much ?

$ 1.8～3

Where can I eat Chawanmushi ?

Conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain

  • Sushiro: There are 600 stores in Japan. There is “Seasonal chawanmushi” on the side menu, and you can order it separately. The price is $ 1.8.
  • Hamazushi: There are 540 stores in Japan. There is “Masutake chawanmushi” on the side menu, and you can order it separately. The price is $ 2.6.
  • Kurazushi: There are 490 stores in Japan. There is “Special chawanmushi” on the side menu, and you can order it separately. The price is $ 1.8.

Family restaurant for Japanese food

  • Washoku Sato: There are 250 stores in Japan. There is “Chawanmushi” on the side menu, however you need to order other menus and additionally order chawanmushi.
  • Hanayayohei: There are 60 stores in Japan. There is “Chawanmushi” on the side menu, however you need to order other menus and additionally order chawanmushi.

Precautions when eating Chawanmushi

For gluten-free people

Of the raw materials for chawanmushi, wheat is used only in the soy sauce contained in the dashi stock. The protein contained in soy sauce is decomposed during the brewing process, so it does not remain.

If you have celiac disease, please decide for yourself whether to eat. If you don’t have celiac disease, it doesn’t matter if you eat it.

Japanese writer’s comment for Chawanmushi

It’s just an individual impression, but I think the taste of chawanmushi is proportional to the price. If cheap materials are used, it is possible to offer them at a low price. Only with good ingredients can you make delicious chawanmushi.

If possible, I would like you to taste the chawanmushi served in kaiseki cuisine.