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Traditional Japanese Breakfast

This traditional Japanese breakfast is a beautifully balanced, high-protein meal that offers a nourishing start to the morning. Known as teishoku, this set meal focuses on a variety of small, flavourful dishes that provide a range of essential nutrients. The combination of grilled salmon, steaming miso soup with potato, and a sweet-savoury tamagoyaki omelettete provides a satisfying contrast of textures and temperatures alongside seasonal pickles and fluffy short-grain rice.

While this spread looks impressive, it is simple to prepare at home for a leisurely weekend brunch or a nutrient-dense weekday meal. Packed with healthy fats from the salmon and fermented benefits from the miso, it is as restorative as it is delicious. Serve each element in individual bowls to appreciate the authentic flavour profile of a homemade Japanese kitchen.

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Ingredients for Traditional Japanese Breakfast

  • 100g short-grain rice

  • 2 tablespoons mixed Japanese pickles, such as cucumber, daikon, cabbage

  • 1 tablespoon instant dashi (Japanese stock) or vegetable

  • Stock powder

  • 550ml boiling water

  • 2 medium-sized potatoes, peeled and chopped into small cubes

  • 1 cucharada de pasta de miso blanco

  • 1 spring onion, very finely chopped

  • 1-inch piece of fresh ginger, finely chopped

  • 1 cebolla de verdeo, finamente picada

  • 2 cucharadas de salsa de soja

  • 60g fillets of salmon

  • 3 medium free-range eggs

  • 1 cucharadita de azúcar

  • 2 cucharaditas de salsa de soja

  • 1 teaspoon bonito flakes or instant dashi powder (optional)

  • vegetable oil for cooking

Cook the rice according to the instructions.

Put the instant dashi stock in a pan with the boiling water. Add the potato and simmer over medium heat for about six minutes, or until the potato is cooked.

Ladle some soup from the pan into a bowl and dissolve the miso in it. Gradually return the miso mixture to the soup. Stir the soup gently but don't let it come to the boil once you've added the miso. Turn off the heat and add the chopped spring onion.

Serve hot in small bowls.

Mix the ginger, spring onion and soy sauce together and pour over the salmon fillets. Leave them to stand at room temperature for 15 minutes.

Pour a little boiling water into the grill pan and place the fish on the grill rack above the water (this keeps it moist while it grills). Grill the fish under medium to high heat for about 5-6 minutes on each side, taking care not to overcook it.

Combine the eggs, sugar, soy sauce and bonito flakes (or instant dashi), if using, and mix the ingredients thoroughly.

Heat a little vegetable oil in a small, non-stick frying pan over medium to high heat and add the egg mixture. Agitate the eggs, using a wooden spoon, so the texture of the omelette remains fluffy.

When the eggs are half-cooked, fold the omelette in half, to make a semi-circle, then fold the curving section inwards to form a rectangle, and then fold the ends inwards until you have what looks like a little square package. This creates the distinctive layered effect, called tamagoyaki, characteristic of a Japanese omelette.

Flip the "package" over and cook for a further two minutes. Cut into quarters.

Japanese etiquette decrees that you place the bowl of rice on your left and the bowl of miso soup on your right. Serve the fish on a separate plate, the pickles in a small bowl, and the omelette on another small plate. Now test your hungover skills with chopsticks.

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