Korean & East Asian · openly licensed
Simple Restaurant Miso Soup
This miso soup is a close approximation of what you get in most cheap western Japanese restaurants. All ingredients are to taste; the primary thing is the ratio of miso to dashi.
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Gather first
Ingredients
- 250 ml (1 cup) dashi
- 5 pieces of wakame
- A few 1 cm cubes of medium-firm tofu
- 1 tablespoon (about 15 ml) miso paste (either white, red, or a mixture)
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Make it
Method
- Heat the dashi to a light simmer.
- While this is heating, lay out your bowl and place the wakame and tofu in the bottom.
- When the dashi simmers, take a ladle or so of liquid aside and mix it with the miso paste.
- Remove the pot of dashi from the stove and stir in the miso mixture.
- Ladle the prepared soup into the bowl and serve.