.Step 1Partially load a large dish with refreshing water, include a handful of kosher salt, and also swish along with your hand to liquify. Add 1 lb. tiny clams, ideally littleneck (10u00e2 $" 12), rubbed permit sit 15 minutes to expel any sort of grit. Carefully drainpipe as well as rinse. If clams discharged a great deal of guts right into the bowl, replay along with a clean dish of refreshing water as well as salt. Place aside.Step 2Bring one 5x3" piece dried kombu and also 6 cups water to a blister in a medium Dutch oven or even various other heavy pot over medium-high heat energy and cook up until water begins to turn pale yellow and also scents sealike, concerning 5 moments. Incorporate 2 large or even 4 tiny zucchini (14u00e2 $ "16 ounces.), halved, very finely sliced right into crescents, 1 tiny red onion, cut in half by means of root end, thinly cut, and also 5 garlic cloves, coarsely sliced, as well as prepare, mixing periodically, until red onion is clear and zucchini are almost cooked via, 6u00e2 $ "8 minutes.Step 3Using a sizable spoon, gather big dollops of one 11-oz. tube or 14-oz. package deal silken tofu right into broth, then include one 3.5-oz. package enoki mushrooms or even 5u00e2 $ "6 oz. beech mushrooms, controls trimmed, as well as scheduled clams and also push whatever down delicately to submerse in liquid. Cover pan as well as chef till clams available, concerning 5 moments, relying on dimension of clams. (If any kind of clams carry out closed, cover, and also remain to prepare, inspecting every moment approximately, till open discard any kind of that perform closed after 5 mins extra.) Try to stay away from stirring so tofu doesnu00e2 $ t break up.Step 4Reduce heat energy to reduced and also skim off any type of foam coming from area. Add 2 Tbsp. fish sauce, 1 Tablespoon. soy sauce, and 1 tsp. Gemstone Crystal or u00c2 1/2 tsp. Morton salt taste as well as season with more sodium if required. Remove pot from heat energy and little by little drizzle 1 big egg, hammered to combination, across the stewu00e2 $ s surface area. Scatter 2 scallions, chopped, over, after that drizzle in u00c2 1/2 tsp. cooked sesame oil.Step 5Cover soup and also offer, maintaining covered until you are ready to ladle into bowls, along with steamed rice alongside.