3 Easy Japanese Breakfasts From One Simple Prep

Three different Japanese-style breakfasts from one rice-and-soup prep session: tofu and spinach, hard-cooked egg and mushrooms, then salmon and cucumber. Do the slower work once, chill it safely, and finish each morning's portion fresh. ONE PREP SESSION, THREE BREAKFASTS Prepare 1½ standard US cups uncooked Japanese short-grain rice (about 2 rice-cooker cups) with about 1⅔ standard cups water, following the package or cooker instructions. Make a soup base from 6 cups unsalted dashi or water, 1 small sliced onion, 2 thinly sliced carrots, and 4 oz sliced mushrooms. Simmer the vegetables for 10–15 minutes. Fully hard-cook 1 egg, cool promptly, and refrigerate in its shell. Keep miso separate; plan on about 2 tsp per soup serving, adjusted to taste. Breakfast 1: Reheat one rice and soup portion. Add roughly half of a 7 oz package of firm tofu and 1 cup spinach to the soup, then dissolve miso in a little hot broth and stir it in off the heat. Breakfast 2: Reheat rice and mushroom-rich soup. Add miso off the heat and serve with the peeled, fully hard-cooked egg and scallion. Breakfast 3: Reheat rice and the last soup portion; add the remaining tofu if desired and miso off the heat. Top rice with about 5 oz canned salmon, opened that morning, and diced cucumber. Divide rice and soup into shallow containers and refrigerate within 2 hours at 40°F or colder. Use within 3–4 days or freeze promptly. Reheat rice and soup portions to 165°F. Fully hard-cooked eggs keep up to 1 week refrigerated. Dashi may contain fish; miso and tofu usually contain soy. Check labels for allergens. Which breakfast would you make first? SOURCES Just One Cookbook — Traditional Japanese Breakfast at Home; 10-Minute Meal: Easy Miso Soup. Just One Cookbook — How to Cook Japanese Rice in a Pot; How to Make Rice in a Rice Cooker. USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service — Shell Eggs from Farm to Table; Steps to Keep Food Safe. Food Safety dot gov (U.S. government) — Cold Food Storage Chart; Game Day Food Safety Tips. #JapaneseBreakfast #MealPrepBreakfast #EasyBreakfast #MrsNakamura