Store Purchased: Loblaws, various locations
Price: $2.79 CDN
Ingredients: Glucose, MSG, salt, powdered dried bonito, bonito extract, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate, yeast extract
Review: This is the ideal grocery store purchase for a cheap (equates to about 5-10 cents/serving) and quick bonito flavored stock for your japanese udon and miso soup. Each individual package makes 1-2L of bonito stock, depending on your taste preferences. It should be purchased in conjunction with miso paste to make miso soup. A touch of soy sauce to taste, and chili pepper flakes, and you are set to go! The result is a typical "fast-food" japanese style restaurant quality miso soup. If you would like to make a better quality stock, real bonito flakes can be purchased at japanese and korean grocers. It comes in gigantic plastic bags of finely shaved bonito, pink and transparent, with flakes an inch or 2 in diameter.
What is BONITO, you say? (excerpted from www.Wikipedia.org)
Bonito is a name given to various species of medium-sized, predatory fish of the genus Sarda, in the mackerel family, including the common or Atlantic bonito (Sarda sarda) and the Pacific bonito (Sarda chiliensis).
More generally, bonito can refer to any of various scombroid fishes related to but smaller than tuna.
In Japanese cuisine outside Japan, "bonito" usually refers to the skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), which is known as katsuo in Japan. This fish is smoked and dried to make katsuobushi, an important ingredient in making dashi (Japanese fish stock), used extensively in Japanese cuisine.
Pacific and Atlantic bonito meat has a firm texture and a darkish color. The meat of young or small bonito can be of lighter color, close to that of skipjack tuna, and is sometimes used as a cheaper substitute of skipjack, especially for canning purposes. Bonito may not be marketed as tuna in all countries, however. The bonito has a moderate fat content.
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