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Miso Soup Recipe

Ingredients

750 mL Dashi - one and a half quarts

80 g white, red, or brown miso paste - 6 tablespoon tablespoons

170 g firm, silken tofu, cut into 1/2 inch cubes - 8 ounces

7.5 g dried Wakami seaweed - about 2 tablespoons

Two whole scallions, thinly sliced

Directions

Miso Soup Recipe

from the wondwerful award winning cookbook The Wok  by J. Kenji López-Alt 


It is not just the recipes that make this cookbook great. It is the explantations of why things work and why you might want to do it a particular way. Like this recipe is so simple, yet when you read the story about why it is here it tastes better. (you need the cookbook to read it)

Directions

1. Bring the bath to a sub simmer in a medium sauce pan.(bubble should start escaping the bottom of the pot, but there should be no vigorous simmering or boiling)

2. Reduce the heat to low to keep it hot, but not boiling.

3. Use a whisk or spoon to scoop the miso paste out of its container and press through a strainer that is in the broth

4. Moving and shaking the strainer will help to get the miso into the broth.

5. Discard any large grains that do not pass through.

6. Add tofu and Wakami and simmer gently until the Wakami has rehydrated about five minutes.

7. Garnish with scallions and serve immediately.