Make Miso Soup Yourself – a Simple Recipe

Just make it yourself: This is a miso soup

Japanese soups are also very popular with us at the moment. A miso soup can best be prepared with fresh food.

• The soup got its name from miso, a seasoning paste that is very popular in Japan. It is made from fermented soybeans, rice, or barley.
• The miso is available in different colors and therefore different flavors.
• The white miso, made from soybeans, is very mild due to its short maturing time and tastes rather sweet.
• Yellow miso is also sweet in taste but is made from malted barley.
• The red miso is much stronger. It tastes salty, and aromatic and tends to go more with European dishes.

Preparing a miso soup

For 4 servings you need 250 grams of tofu, 2 leeks, 80 grams of red miso paste, and ¾ liter of dashi stock.

• Dashi broth is available as an instant broth in Asian stores. But you can also easily make them yourself.
• Soak 10 grams of kombu seaweed in 720 milliliters of water and then boil it. After skimming the seaweed, stir 10 grams of bonito flakes into the water. The dashi broth is ready.
• Now put miso paste through a sieve into this. Both are stirred together, but no longer boiled so that the two components do not separate again.
• The tofu is cut into cubes and the chopped leek only has to soak in the soup for a minute and then you can serve it.
• Other types of vegetables such as mushrooms, kohlrabi, or sprouts are also suitable as an insert.