Name: Miso Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 6 cups dashi ((or dissolve 2 to 3 tablespoons dashi granules in 6 cups of water)); 3 tablespoons miso paste; 1 300-gram block soft tofu ((silken or momen tofu are recommended), cut into half-inch cubes); 2 generous pinches dried wakame (soaked in hot water, drained and finely sliced); 6 tablespoons finely sliced scallions

Miso Soup

Connie Veneracion

The basic miso soup that the world is familiar with — cooked with dashi, miso, wakame and soft tofu.

Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

Total Time 10 mins

Course Soup

Cuisine Japanese

Servings people

Ingredients

6 cups dashi (or dissolve 2 to 3 tablespoons dashi granules in 6 cups of water)
3 tablespoons miso paste
1 300-gram block soft tofu (silken or momen tofu are recommended), cut into half-inch cubes
2 generous pinches dried wakame soaked in hot water, drained and finely sliced
6 tablespoons finely sliced scallions

Instructions

In a pot, heat the dashi until barely simmering.
Ladle about half a cup of hot dashi into a bowl and stir in the miso paste until free from lumps.
Drop the tofu cubes into the pot of dashi. As soon as the broth comes to a simmer, turn off the heat.
Stir in the diluted miso paste, wakame and scallions.

Notes

Originally published in CASA Veneracion on March 1, 2008.

Keyword Miso Soup

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