Known to most people who had ever dined at a Japanese eatery, chawanmushi is a tasty soup-custard served in a cutsy looking lidded Japanese tea cups. However, from the little that I have read so far of Japanese cookery, I think that chawanmushi literally means tea bowl steaming. So, I wonder which part of the three word description says anything about soup-custard? Maybe this how our steamboat may sound a foreigner. Together with Hubby (yes, we spent Valentine's Day together cooking in the kitchen at 12.30am!), we whipped up a two stir-fried vegetables, miso soup and also chawanmushi. I was quite happy with the taste of my chawanmushi except that I didn't have a thermometer to monitor the temperature of the boiling water in the steamer, hence my chawanmushi cooked too quickly and had pock marks on the surface. Here's my pock-marked chawanmushi in a ramekin. ************************************** Chawanmushi (adapted from The Japanese Kitchen) *********************
Savouring life with dainty bites