Recipe: Delicious Basic Miso Soup

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Basic Miso Soup. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine dashi granules and water; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, and whisk in the miso paste. Miso soup is a quick, easy, and light soup and is a staple of Japanese cuisine.

Add Japanese "DASHI" Soup Stock and whisk to dissolve.

Add Hikari Miso Organic Red Miso and some dashi stock and whisk until miso paste is completely dissolved.

Miso soup is the comfort food of Japan.

You can cook Basic Miso Soup using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Basic Miso Soup

1. It’s 4 cups of Dashi Stock *find about ‘Dashi Stock’ at http://www.hirokoliston.com/dashi-stock/.

2. It’s 3-4 tablespoons of Miso.

3. Prepare 2 of Spring Onion *finely chopped.

4. Prepare of <Add two or three of the following>.

5. You need of *Note: Large vegetables need to be cut into small pieces or slices.

6. Prepare 1/2-1 block of Tofu *Momen of Silken Tofu.

7. Prepare 1 tablespoon of Dried Chopped Wakame.

8. Prepare 1 of Potato.

9. Prepare 1/2-1 of Onion.

10. It’s 1/2 of Carrot.

11. Prepare 4-5 of Snow Peas.

12. You need 1/4 bunch of Spinach.

13. You need 4-5 of Green Beans.

14. Prepare 1/2 of small Eggplant.

15. It’s 1 sheet of ‘Abura-age’ (Fried Thin Tofu).

16. You need 2-3 of Shiitake.

17. Prepare 1/2 pack of Shimeji.

18. It’s 5 cm of Daikon.

It's made by first making a stock called dashi, with kombu (dried kelp) and then stirring in the miso paste at the very end.

The soup is simple, pleasantly salty, and easy to digest.

This versatile soup is traditionally made with tofu and the version that you will find here is vegetarian, but you can customize it to your preferences by adding meat or seafood.

The key ingredient in miso soup is miso, a Japanese soybean paste.

Basic Miso Soup instructions

1. Heat Dashi Stock (OR Water & Dashi Powder) in a large saucepan or a pot, add the ingredients of your choice (except Tofu) and cook them in the stock until soft. *Note: Use about 2 teaspoons Dashi Powder for 4 cups Water OR according to the instruction on the package..

2. *Note: If you wish to add Tofu to your Miso Soup, you don’t need to cook Tofu and Tofu can be easily broken. Add Tofu after you season the soup with Miso..

3. Season the soup with Miso. *Note: The important point to remember is that you should remove the soup from the heat when it’s just about to start boiling after adding Miso. If you boil it for too long, the wonderful aroma of Miso will be lost. That’s what I was taught..

4. Sprinkle with finely chopped Spring Onions and serve..

It is available in a few different varieties including red and white, which are the most common.

Miso soup 味噌汁 is a warm and comforting Japanese soup prepared with a soup stock (Dashi) and miso paste.

It is the soul food for the Japanese which serve together with rice.

Many non-Japanese are familiar with miso soup as many Japanese restaurants serve it with rice, salad and the main dish as the bento set.

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