Niboshi Dashi: Dried Sardine Stock
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Niboshi dashi — extracted from dried baby sardines (niboshi or iriko) — is the most robustly flavoured of the Japanese primary stocks: its characteristic slightly bitter, intensely fishy-umami flavour is appropriate for miso soup (where its assertiveness balances the miso's depth), for certain noodle broths, and for the robust preparations of rural Japanese cooking where delicacy is not the primary value. It is categorically not appropriate for chawanmushi or delicate clear soups.
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