whats a good miso soup recipe?

Question

everytime i buy a miso packet it tastes gross. why is something that cost less than $2 in a japanese restaurant so hard to find elsewhere?

Answer 1

How To Make Perfect Miso Soup

Basically, you can put any vegetables you have on hand into your miso soup. Diced potatoes, thinly sliced onions, small pieces of green beans and sliced mushrooms are some of the ingredients we use regularly. Steamer clams are especially good as they add a nice, rich flavor to the soup.

Traditional ingredients for 3 people: 3 tbsps of miso paste, 1/2 a pkg of tofu, 1/2 of an abura-age (deep fried tofu sheet), 2 long green onions and 3 cups of water.

The most convenient miso (and the one we use most often) is a paste with the base taste (dashi) already mixed in. You can ask from any Asian grocer.

If you can't find miso with base taste, you'll need to add a powdered base (hondashi) to the hot water before the miso goes in. Hondashi is a bonito fish stock and is a common ingredient in many Japanese dishes. It should be very easy to find at your local Asian food store.

Let's start!!

Cut tofu into about 3/4" cubes.
And chop, slice or dice other ingredients as appropriate.
Bring 3 cups of water to a boil and add your abura-age or other firm ingredients such as potatoes and/or clams.
When these ingredients soften, turn off the heat and add the miso paste. Mix well!
Then, add the rest of your ingredients.
Turn up the heat again, but be sure not to let the soup come to a boil. This is the key to making great tasting miso soup as it prevents the flavor from escaping. Turn off the heat just before your soup begins to boil.
Serve the soup in lacquer miso bowls if you have them. The traditional way to eat miso soup is to lift the bowl to your mouth and sip as you would from a cup. The lacquer bowls are ideal because they don't get too hot to hold in your hands.
If you like spicy things, try a sprinkle of shichimi togarashi. Translated, shichimi means "seven tastes" and togarashi is "pepper." Shichimi togarashi is a great red pepper mix that contains seven ingredients such as sesame seeds, citrus peel and red pepper. Look for the bottle pictured on your left. (Actually, though this is widely known as shichimi togarashi in Japan, the English writing on the label of the product distributed in the U.S. sometimes reads nanami togarashi so don't get confused. Either way, it's the same thing.)

Answer 2

3 1/3 cups dashi soup stock
1/2 tofu
3-4 tbsps miso paste
1/4 cup chopped green onion

PREPARATION:
Put dashi soup stock in a pan and bring to a boil. Cut tofu into small cubes and add them to the soup. Scoop out some soup stock from the pan and dissolve miso in it. Return the soup in the pan. Stop the heat and add chopped green onion. Remember not to boil the soup after you put miso in.

Answer 3

Go to a well Japanese eating place. They almost always serve tofu soup as an appetizer. I will admit that tofu is an bought style, however the high-quality strategy to obtain a style is to style the high-quality of it you potentially can. The Vietnamese additionally use tofu soup just a little.

Answer 4

Check out this link. It not only explains what the soup is, but also gives the recipe.


http://www.mealsmatter.org/recipes-meals/recipe/14172