SANKO Japanese Special Approval Bonito Soup Stock Dashi Packs, Add Umami Seasoning, Healthy Natural Ingredients, No MSG Added (8.3g / 0.3 Ounce x 15 Count)

This dashi taste great and serves as a good base for soups and stock. It comes in a big tea bag that you steep and it saves a lot of time over making your own dashi. I use it for dishes like agedashi tofu and miso and the taste is right up there with some Japanese restaurants. One day I'll make everything from scratch but, until then, I'm glad this dashi soup exist.

Sanko Japanese Special Approval Bonito Soup is an incredibly convenient way to make a dashi in a quick 2 minutes. The 4.39oz bag holds 15 tea style bags of rich dashi that does not include MSG. To make, you simply add 800ml of cold water to a pot and add 1 tea bag. Bring the pot to a boil for 1 to 2 minutes over medium heat without a cover on top. Turn the heat off, press the bag lightly against the side of the pot and remove. You now have a flavorful dashi to enjoy or to use in a variety of dishes. The sachets have a bold aroma of fish. After boiling the sachet, the once plain water had become a rich and fragrant broth. The flavor of the broth is nuanced and can be enjoyed as is or coupled with additional ingredients to create exciting dishes. It was an ideal ingredient to pair with miso, tofu, and wakame to create a delicious miso soup. The manufacturer provided instructions to make not only dashi but also miso soup, osuimono, oden, yosenabe, and nimono. They noted that the dashi bag can also be used to make udon/soba soup, a dipping sauce for tempura, and chawanmushi. The bags of dashi are ideal to keep in a pantry or take with you when camping. The ingredients include salt, sugar, powdered dried bonito, yeast extract, dextrin, powdered dried round herring, powdered dried mackerel, crushed dried kelp, shiitake mushroom, powdered soy sauce, edible plant fat, and oil. Each bag has 22 calories, 0.2g Total Fat, 3g Total Carbohydrate, and 2g Protein. The product that I received has a best by date of 10 months from the date that I received it. It is a Product of Japan. I was impressed with how simple it was to make dashi with this packet and I plan to always have this product on hand in our kitchen.

This soup stock comes in submersible bags (like teabags) that you place in boiling water for a couple of minutes. They're very easy to use, with 15 bags in the resealable package for keeping them fresh. I made a pot of this stock just to try out as broth, and it was a little fishy for my palate. Of course, once you add other ingredients, the fish flavor will probably be less prominent. The first two ingredients are salt and sugar, by the way, which is not clear from the listing, which focuses on the fish and mushroom ingredients.

Super flavorful dashi and it's also the easiest dashi you'll ever make. Just take hot water (but not rapidly boiling) and throw these in for a short while. The soup gives off a sweet, fish aroma that's somewhat mild. You can have the dashi stock as is, or use it as a base for other stuff. Or you can just throw a teabag into other soups as a flavor boost.For 10 bucks, you're getting so much soup out of this bag. The value proposition is quite strong, especially given how much time and effort you're cutting out for a still very delicious and fresh dashi. Absolutely recommend and I've re-ordered another 2 bags.Also, curiosity got to me and I stuck a teabag into my mouth after steeping it for long enough. Just chewed on it and sucked whatever I could out of the small teabag. I was almost in a state of ecstasy after tasting that. It's by far the biggest surge of umami my mouth has ever tasted in one moment. Given the sodium content, I wouldn't quite recommend it to others, but I figured it was worth mentioning my experience.

Yes, it's fishy. It's made with fish. Of course it's fishy. There is a LOT of flavor here. If you don't like the flavor of fish or kelp, you aren't going to like this. If you've ever had really good miso soup, and you thought it was tasty, you'll like this. Cheap miso is sometimes just kelp and soy sauce. That tastes nothing like this because it isn't actually even miso. It's just some cheap stuff that cheap restaurants sometimes toss together and call miso.This takes no time at all to make into a broth. You can also just toss some of this in your slow cooker and cook whatever in it. It's like chicken broth...except it's fish. You can even just cook pasta in it and then keep the broth and eat the pasta in the broth instead of straining it if you want some super fast soup. You can be as fancy as you want with this. It's a very tasty base for whatever dish you want to make,

The media could not be loaded. This Japanese Special Approval Katsuofuridashi Soup Base is so easy to use that even a caveman (or woman) could do it! It comes with clearly written English instructions, and takes just a few minutes to make.Just add 1 packet to 3 cups of water, let it boil for a minute or two, squeeze the packet as you remove it and you get a clear light golden broth that smells wonderful and has just the right amount of fish taste to make an excellent base for miso, udon noodles, or other dishes.It tastes so good that I enjoy it as a broth without adding anything too. It has everything you need for an authentic Japanese stock so you don't need to add seaweed, and it doesn't contain any MSG. What a smart way to save time and money on ingredients!

A very convenient soup flavoring you can use with noodles or adding it to a soup to add flavor. Convenient packaging lets you use what you want. Made my own vegetable soup and added this for more flavor.The only knock was the nutrition information was covered up by a sticker and you couldn’t read the information.

This soup base tastes amazing and is very easy to make. It comes with small little sachets and each sachets can make up to 600ml of broth. You add the sachet to the water and boil it a few mins. I did not keep track of the time but I thought that the longer it's cooked, the more flavorful the water gets. The broth is very flavorful and with a deep complex flavor. This is definitely one of my favorite dashi broth. I'd highly recommend it.