Japanese

Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon)

Name: Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon)
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 4 cups cooked white rice; 1/2 lb salmon fillets; 3 cups dashi stock; 1 tbsp soy sauce; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 nori sheets; 2 scallions

Tomoko @tomoko_osaka

Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

15 min Easy Pescatarian Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 cups cooked white rice
1/2 lb salmon fillets
3 cups dashi stock
1 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 tsp salt
2 nori sheets
2 scallions

How to cook it

Salt the salmon and pan-sear or broil until cooked through, then flake it into large pieces, discarding skin and bones.
Bring the dashi to a simmer and season with the soy sauce and salt.
Divide the rice among bowls and scatter the flaked salmon over each.
Ladle the hot dashi over the rice and top with torn nori and sliced scallions.

Watch how to cook Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A Japanese breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 min

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. Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon) carries gluten, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
Fish	Yes	Asa Sarada (Morning Cabbage and Corn Salad)
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: 330 kcal
Protein: 16 g
Carbs: 54 g
Fat: 6 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 520 mg
Saturated fat: 1 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Ochazuke (Savory Rice Soup with Salmon) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.