How to choose Dashi (Japanese broth)
Dashi (Japanese broth) that contains many ingredients of taste is basis of Japanese food, Japanese use it in many Japanese food, like miso soup, food boiled and seasoned, the soup, rice cooked etc.
Especially, Japanese use broth of sea tangle that contains many “glutamic acid” that is taste component, broth of smoked and dried bonito that contains many “inosinic acid”, and mix broth of sea tangle and broth of dried bonito to make Dashi (Japanese broth).
In addition to these ingredients, Japanese use many Dashi that is made from vegetation and fish, like shiitake mushrooms, dried small sardines, flying fish and etc.
You can get dashi by boiling ingredients but to take it more easily, you can use pack of dashi or powdery dashi, you can get good quality of dashi, too. So, please check it.
Particularly, for a family that includes small children, we suggest using “natural additive-free dashi” in your cooking and avoiding chemical seasoning to bring up children’s of the sense of taste and to make healthy body.
And for Muslim, let avoid using additions that includes powdery soy sauce or raw materials that you don’t know.
Moreover, Dashi that made from sea tangles, shiitake mushrooms and vegetables, not only for Muslim but also for vegetarians can eat it.
Featured additive-free Dashi (No HALAL certification)
Ingredients: Smoked sardines, dried small sardines, dried Urume sardines, dried bonito, sea tangles and shiitake mushrooms (all materials are domestic.) (Information given as of November 2015) *Disuse seasoning (salt, soy sauce and etc.), food additive, chemical seasoning and preservative. |
Ingredients: Sea tangles, bonitos, baked fling fish, short-neck clams, scallops, sardines and shiitake mushrooms (all materials are domestic.) (Information given as of November 2015) *Disuse seasoning (salt, soy sauce and etc.), food additive, chemical seasoning and preservative |
Ingredients:
Dried mackerels, dried sardines, shaving of dried bonitos, dried Muro horse mackerels, dried Urume sardines, sea tangles and shiitake mushrooms(Information given as of November 2015) *Disuse seasoning (salt, soy sauce and etc.), food additive, chemical seasoning and preservative |
Ingredients:Baked flying fish (flying fish from Nagasaki prefecture), dried small sardine (from Nagasaki prefecture), dried bonito (from Kagoshima prefecture) and sea tangle (from Hokkaido prefecture)(Information given as of November 2015)
*Disuse seasoning (salt, soy sauce and etc.), food additive, chemical seasoning and preservative. |
Ingredients:Dried bonito (domestic), dried small sardine (domestic), sea tangle (domestic), shiitake mushroom (from china) and horse mackerel (domestic) (Information given as of November 2015) *Disuse seasoning (salt, soy sauce and etc.), food additive, chemical seasoning and preservative. |
Ingredients:Made from natural tree shiitake (from Kyusyu region) *Disuse seasoning (salt, soy sauce and etc.), food additive, chemical seasoning and preservative. |
Maekawa additive-free white dashi made by store specializing Dashi (Japanese broth) Shiawase (300ml)
Ingredients:Ingredients of flavor (dried sardine, dried flying fish, sea tangle and shiitake mushroom), salt and sugar(Information given as of November 2015) |
Ingredients: Dried bonito (from Yaizu city) (Information given as of November 2015) |
Ingredients: Sea tangle from Rausu city in Hakkaido prefecture (Information given as of November 2015) |
Ingredients: Domestic sea tangles (from Hokkido and southern part of Hokkaido) (Information given as of November 2015) |