Japanese
Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup)
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Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Soak the clams in lightly salted water 30 minutes to purge sand, then rinse well.
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Combine the clams, kombu, sake, and 4 cups water in a pot.
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Bring to a gentle simmer, skimming any foam, until the clams open, about 6 minutes; discard any that stay shut.
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Remove the kombu, season with salt, and top with sliced scallions.
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Serve it with
A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup) carries shellfish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Daikon to Aburaage no Miso Shiru (Daikon and Fried Tofu Miso Soup) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 20 kcal
- Protein
- 4 g
- Carbs
- 0 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 360 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in spring, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
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