Easy Soft Boiled Eggs

5 ingredients
13 steps

Ingredients

  • 4 Eggs
  • 50 ml Soy sauce
  • 100 ml Sake
  • 150 ml Mirin
  • 2 cm Kombu for dashi stock

Directions

  1. 1
    Combine the marked ingredients in a pot and add the kombu.
  2. 2
    Let it sit for 10 minutes.
  3. 3
    Then bring the soy sauce mixture to a boil to evaporate the alcohol.
  4. 4
    Remove the kombu, which can be eaten later.
  5. 5
    Set aside.
  6. 6
    Take out the eggs from the refrigerator and using a ladle, gently drop in boiling water.
  7. 7
    Cook for 6 minutes for very soft yolk and 7 minutes for slightly cooked yolk.
  8. 8
    Shock the eggs in cold water (winter) or in an ice-bath (summer) to stop cooking.
  9. 9
    When cool, carefully peel the eggs and place in a ziploc bag.
  10. 10
    Pour in the soy sauce mixture and using a straw, suck out the air from the bag and seal.
  11. 11
    Marinate at least for 30 minutes.
  12. 12
    They taste better when marinated overnight.
  13. 13
    You can eat them as they are, but they are great as a ramen topping.

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