Shiitake Zosui

Traditionally, zosui is a Japanese rice-porridge or soup, made in its simplest form with leftover cooked rice, water and chicken. Similar in concept to the Chinese congee, or a Brazilian canja, it is the kind of dish eaten when people are feeling under the weather or after a night on the tiles. For this Nikkei version, I jazz things up a bit: this dish is cooked like a risotto using shiitake dashi to cook the rice from scratch, is flavoured with miso-mascarpone then topped with a