O ZO-NI

(rice cake boiled in soup)




zōni is a Japanese soup containing mochi( rice cakes).
The dish is the traditional Japanese New Year foods.


As for ways of cooking the soup, different regions in Japan sport many variations, but in most cases it is either a clear soup (sumashi-jiru) flavoured with dashi (stock usually made from flakes of dried bonito) and soy sauce, generally preferred in eastern parts of the country, or a miso soup generally preferred in the western parts.

mochi is cut into a rectangle in eastern Japan, whereas in western Japan the mochi is usually round.

My zo-ni is eastern style
I use chicken,komatsuna( leafy vegetables), mitsuba (a Japanese herb similar to parsley) , naruto, daikon, carrot, and flakes of yuzu peel .



naruto is fish-paste cake, that is sliced and is used to decorate soup.


daikon ( Japanese white radish )


komatsuna




mitsuba