🍲 Kuurijishi (Egg Soup with meat and vegetables)

‘Kuurijishi' is an egg soup with pork belly, ‘Shibui' (‘Tougan' wax gourd), and ‘Gumbo' (‘Gobou' burdock). They use pork, bonito or shiitake mushroom for ‘dashi' soup stock to make soup taste rich and mild. Also, the texture of ‘Shibui' melting in mouth and fluffy egg are mild. ‘Kuuri' in the dish's name means ice, ‘jishi' means boar meat in Okinawa dialect. It is said that its name came from the eggs spreading in a soup bowl like snow. Although there are still many traditional local food in Okinawa, some of dishes are getting less served these years. The traditional daily food served during ‘Obon' season (mid-August) is one of those dishes. For your information, it's rare to find the dishes with name contains ‘kuuri', and ‘Kuuri-hanbin', fish cake layered green juice fishcake and white fishcake in turn, was made before.