DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Sobagome Zousui
Also known as: Buckwheat Rice Porridge, Sobagome Jiru
Tokushima Prefecture’s sobagome zousui recipe published by MAFF uses boiled buckwheat groats in its own niboshi broth with chicken, vegetables and supplied fish cake.
About Sobagome Zousui
Research draft based on the references below. These notes describe particular recipes and presentations; ingredient connections are still being reviewed.
MAFF’s Tokushima entry identifies sobagome zousui, also called sobagome jiru, with the Iya area and the wider prefecture. The selected prefectural recipe uses buckwheat groats rather than ground buckwheat noodles.
The groats are boiled separately in plenty of water, then rinsed and drained. Niboshi dried sardines soak in a stock bag in the main water portion before the listed shiitake mushroom stock is added and the broth heated.
The fish bag is removed after boiling. Skin is taken off the chicken thighs, which are cubed and rubbed with sake before joining that same broth.
Carrot chunks, salted-and-washed konnyaku strips, thinly sliced chikuwa and dried shiitake cook with the chicken. Light soy sauce and mirin season the pot before the boiled groats and chopped green onion are added.
The source describes groats swelling during boiling and places this way of eating buckwheat within Tokushima’s continuing food culture. Local recipe pamphlets and newer freeze-dried products are among its examples of preservation.
Ingredients in Sobagome Zousui
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- Shiitake mushroombase
- Soy Sauceseasoning
- Mirinseasoning
- Green oniongarnish
- Buckwheat Groatsbase
- Carrotbase
- Chickenprotein
- Konjacbase
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Cooking traditions
- Tokushima Iya / prefectural sobagome recipe published by MAFF