Japanese Style White & Green Asparagus Soup
by Ling
@ 22 Oct 2013
Ingredients
1 sea bream (200g), cut into 4 equal pieces
4 shiitake mushrooms
4 prawns
¼ yuzu, zested
White Asparagus Soup
8 white asparagus spears, peeled and chopped
200ml dashi (Japanese soup stock)
Preparation
For the white asparagus soup: Poach the chopped white asparagus and prawns separately in a pot of boiling salted water. Remove and drain well. Place the poached white asparagus into a food processor and add in the dashi and pulse to a purée. Strain the white asparagus purée into a saucepan and heat over a low heat. Keep warm.
Poach the sea bream pieces, prawns and shiitake mushrooms separately in a pot of boiling salted water. Remove and drain well.
Place a poached sea bream into each serving soup bowl and top with a poached shiitake mushroom and poached prawn. Ladle the white asparagus soup into the serving soup bowl, filling to the level of the shiitake mushroom and sprinkle with yuzu zest.
Serves 4