Ajinomoto HONDASHI Bonito Soup Stock 4.23oz, 4.23 Ounce

This is the ingredient I never knew I needed to make great miso soup. This really brings that Umami flavor in. I am glad I found the recipe that included this. I will be keeping this in my pantry on a regular.

My fav I need this in my life!!! I’m so happy I can get it on Amazon. I grew up in Japan I’m japanese. We can not imagine making anything without this. This is the seasoning king and broth king👑

Delicious.Made miso soup with:1tsp of this dashi powder1/4 tsp of MSG1/3 of white miso pouch from Trader Joe’sTofuNoriSo yummy!!

Hondashi makes the stock for miso soup (dashi) so easy. I have made dashi the traditional way, from dried kelp (kombu) and dried bonito flakes, but it's tricky to get the proportions right, it's rather messy, and it's hard to produce a concentrated, flavorful stock. Hondashi does contain non-traditional ingredients including salt, MSG, lactose, sugar, yeast extract, dissodium succinate, xylose, maltose and dextrose. HOWEVER, the result is a super-flavorful stock. I'll take the flavor and convenience. I can whip up a delicious miso soup, with Hondashi granules, onion, soft tofu, miso paste, dried seaweed (musubi nori) and sliced scallions in under 15 minutes. I love this product.

I use this in my ramen and curry. I'm always going to reorder, as long as the price is worth it.

I use this for seafood and crab boils with old bay and white wine

This product seems very simple as it mainly consists of salt, msg, and traces of Thuna. But it tastes delicious and, besides making dashi, is very versatile as a flavor enhancer: I use it for fish sauces or to flavor fish fillets instead of salt.It's pretty expensive for what it is, but everything in Japan is very expensive. At least, I have a very high trust in the approach to quality and most definitely in their food ethics.

I was not sure what to expect of this stuff, as it was in a recipe that I really wanted to try. I used it for the recipe and that came out great. Since then I have used to to make some simple soups where I add this along with some chicken stock and use as the base. It blows away just using chicken stock and it really elevates the simple soup. I am just adding some somen noodles, green onions, cabbage and some chicken or leftover beef. It will blow you away when you try it.