Tempura Dipping Sauce

Tempura is a popular Japanese dish and this is the perfect dipping sauce to accompany it.

Serves 4-5

Dipping Sauce:
350ml water or light vegetable stock
1-inch piece Clearspring Kombu
2 - 2
½ tbsp Clearspring Organic Shoyu soya sauce (to taste)
3 tbsp Clearspring Rice Mirin or Clearspring Organic Mikawa Mirin
Side Dishes:
Ginger root, finely grated
Mooli or salad radish, finely grated
Salad onions, finely cut

Method:
1. To prepare the dipping sauce, combine the water or stock and the kombu in a small saucepan and bring just to a simmer, uncovered, over medium heat. Remove the kombu and reserve it for another use. Add the shoyu to taste and the mirin and gently simmer for 1 minute. Serve in individual small, shallow bowls.

2. Set out centrally on the table one dish for each of the grated ginger, grated radish, and cut salad onions, so they can be added to the individual dips to suit each person's tastes.

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