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da·shi

 (dä′shē)
n.
A clear soup stock used in Japanese cuisine, typically made from kombu and flakes of dried skipjack tuna.

[Japanese, from dashi, a taking out, extracting, verbal noun of dasu, to take out, bring out, from Old Japanese idasu, causative of idu, to go out, come out.]
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dashi

(ˈdaʃɪ)
n
(Cookery) a clear stock made from dried fish and kelp
[C20: Japanese]
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dashi

A clear stock made from tuna and seaweed. Used in Japanese cooking.
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In 1908, Japanese chemistry professor Kikunae Ikeda noticed that certain foods had a savory taste--including Parmesan cheese, ripe tomatoes, dry-aged beef, and kombu dashi, a broth made from dried kelp that's essential to Japanese cooking.
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The noodles were appealingly chewy while the dashi broth to be fairly bland while only slightly sweet.
There's a bowl of dashi dipping sauce, another of miso soup and a third of cold curly pickled cucumber.
The price is low and can't cover the production costs," says the president of the Dashi farmers' association, Skender Ame.