Dashi is a Japanese style soup or cooking liquid that has so many uses. you can swap out the aromats in this recipe to suit what you are doing. swapping out ingredients for dried mushrooms for example make a fantastic mushroom broth.

175g - Red Miso
175g - White Miso
150g - Ginger (Skin on chopped roughly)
2 - Lemon Grass
1 - Red Chilli (halved and seeds removed)
2 - cloves Garlic
4500g - Water
2 bunches - Corriander

Mix everything in a large pot except the coriander. bring to the boil then simmer for 20 mins. remove from the heat and add the coriander. Clingfilm the pot tightly and allow to infuse for 3 hours. Pass through a fine muslin leaving the sediment from the miso behind or your dashi will be cloudy,