Name: “Snake’s Eyes” Soup (Janomé-jiru )
Yield: Serves 4.
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: 8 jumbo shrimp; Peel from ½ lemon or lime; 1 teaspoon saké (rice wine); ¼ teaspoon salt; 3 cups dashi (Basic Soup Stock); 8–12 stalks mitsuba (trefoil) or coriander; ½ teaspoon usu kuchi shōyu (light soy sauce)

Preparation info

Serves
4
.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

At Home with Japanese Cooking

By Elizabeth Andoh

Published 1986

About

The name of this soup derives from the curled, striped shrimp that lie at the bottom of each bowl. Typical of Japanese clear dinner soups, a few artistically designed morsels rest in a subtly flavored broth.

Ingredients

8 jumbo shrimp
1 teaspoon saké (rice wine)
8–12 stalks

Method

Shell and devein the shrimp and sprinkle the rice wine over them. Blanch the shrimp in rapidly boiling water for 1 minute and drain them. Place two curled shrimp in the bottom of each of four individual bowls.

Plunge the trefoil or coriander into fresh boiling salted water until it barely wilts. Remove the greens immediately to a bowl of cold water. Knot together 2 or 3 stalks to make a