Hello! I'm Chloe and this is my kitchen!
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| A bowl of miso soup (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Here we talk about cool Japanese foods and I even give you recipes! Today's cool Japanese food is....
Miso
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| ヒラツメガニの味噌汁(miso soup) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Miso is just one of those awesome Japanese seasonings that not everyone has heard of. It is made by fermenting soybeans with salt and a fungus known as kōjikin in
Japan. Sometimes rice is included to make the delicious gloopy paste. Just add a little dashi
soup stock and you have some tasty miso soup (misoshiru) on your hands! Surely the king of
staple foods.
Miso is rich in vitamins and high in proteins and was even around in
feudal Japan. Most of the time it has a delicious salty taste but both the taste and smell change depending on how it was fermented.
Miso has quite a lot of variety so it's worth
experimenting with.
Here is a simple recipe for
Miso Soup that I hope you will enjoy!
Vegetarian Friendly!
Ingredients:
4 cups water
1/3 cup miso
3 green onions (scallions), chopped
1 tbsp shredded nori or wakame seaweed
1/2 block firm
silken tofu, cut into 1 inch cubes
dash soy sauce (optional)
1/2 tsp sesame oil (optional)
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Yield: Serves: 3-4
Instructions:
- Get a medium sized saucepan and put in you water and dashi packet (be sure to give it a good stir!).
- Bring it to boil on medium heat. When it boils reduce it to a simmer for approximately five minutes.
- Make sure you've gotten rid of that Dashi packet. Get a Tbsp. of miso and mix it in with your dashi. Kepp on doing it till all of the miso is used up.
- you can try adding tofu to dilute it if you like. Just cut it into neat cubes and plop it in, give it a gentle stir. You of course don't have too but it is tasty.
- Get some lovely soak dried wakame and put it in some water for a good ten minutes or so.
- While that's soaking slice up a nice green onion and serve it in a bowl with your wakame when you're ready,
- Put you miso soup on simmer till it heated through and then serve.
Top Tips
Kombu Dashi is the best for vegetarians.
Don't boil the miso because it ruins the taste.
Taste as you go!
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