• Skip to main content
  • Skip to header right navigation
  • Skip to after header navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Devour.Asia

Devour.Asia

Connie Veneracion explores Asian food, history and culture

  • Tea
  • Kitchen Tales
    • Pantry Staples
    • Kitchen Tools
    • Cooking Techniques
    • Food Trivia
  • Food Tales
  • Travel Tales
  • Search

  • All Recipes
    • Chinese
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Taiwanese
    • Thai
    • Vietnamese
    • Asian Fusion
    • Instant Noodles (Ramen)
  • Tea
  • Kitchen Tales
    • Pantry Staples
    • Kitchen Tools
    • Cooking Techniques
    • Food Trivia
  • Food Tales
  • Travel Tales
  • Pop Tales
  • About
  • Privacy
  • All Recipes
  • Chinese
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Taiwanese
  • Thai
  • Vietnamese
  • Fusion
You are here: Home / All Recipes / White Asparagus and Spinach Miso Soup

White Asparagus and Spinach Miso Soup

White Asparagus and Spinach Miso Soup

When we crave vegetable soup but we don’t want to go through the rigmarole of peeling and chopping various vegetables, we switch to the default—miso soup. Because it is already tasty and beautifully textured, it doesn’t need a chorus of ingredients to make it sing. 

It’s canned white asparagus. I’m not a huge fan of canned vegetables but we have yet to discover where fresh white asparagus is sold in this country. If it is sold fresh at all. The spinach is fresh though. Not frozen but beautifully fresh with the stalks still busting with water. A regular can of white asparagus and two handfuls of spinach leaves are more than enough to make soup for four people.

White Asparagus and Spinach Miso Soup

Connie Veneracion
White Asparagus and Spinach Miso Soup
Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 7 mins
Course Soup
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1 can white asparagus
  • 2 handfuls spinach leaves rinsed well
  • 1 packet dashi granules
  • 1 heaping tablespoon miso paste

Instructions
 

  • Drain the asparagus; save the liquid from the can.
  • Take half a cup of the liquid and pour into a bowl. Add the miso paste to the liquid in the bowl and stir until smooth.
  • Add enough liquid from the asparagus to measure four cups. Pour into a pot and heat.
  • Add the spinach leaves and asparagus spears to the pot. Cook for a minute after the water boils.
  • Stir in the dashi.
  • Turn off the heat. Stir in the miso.
  • Serve the white asparagus and spinach soup immediately.
Looking for Filipino food?Visit CASA Veneracion for modern twists on favorite classics!

If you cooked this dish (or made this drink) and you want to share your masterpiece, please use your own photos and write the cooking steps in your own words.

More Japanese food
Easy yakitori (with tare sauce) for home cooking

Easy Yakitori With Tare Sauce

Kimchi omurice (Korean omelet rice with kimchi fried rice)

Kimchi Omurice

Chicken Broccoli Stir Fry Recipe

Chicken Broccoli Stir Fry

Inside my Asian kitchen

Homemade yellow mustard sauce

How to Make Yellow Mustard Sauce

Homemade herb infused olive oil

How to Make Herb-infused Olive Oil

How to Chiffonade Fresh Basil: An Picture Guide

How to Chiffonade Fresh Basil and Other Leafy Herbs for Garnish

Asian food tales

Bistro Amarillo, Hotel Salcedo de Vigan

Eating Our Way From Vigan To Laoag

Singapore Flyer

Nice to Meet and Eat You, Singapore!

6 Peace Pizza in Kyoto, Japan

Lost at Midnight in Kyoto, We Discovered 6 Peace Pizza

Explore Asia

Carrot cupcake at The Yellow Chair Cafe, Saigon

The Carrot Cupcake at Yellow Chair Cafe in Saigon

The Hanoi Hop-on-hop-off Bus

The Hanoi Hop-on-hop-off Bus Tour and the White Man Who Refused to Wait

The promenade around Hoan Kiem Lake, Hanoi

That Day We Got Lost and Found Ourselves on the Promenade of Hoan Kiem Lake

March 4, 2018 : All Recipes, Cooking Japanese, Miso Soup Project
Previous Post: « Chicken giblet What’s the Difference Between Giblets and Gizzards?
Next Post: How to Extract Tamarind Juice Pressing fresh tamarind (sampalok) pulp »

Sidebar

Asian Pop Tales

A typical Japanese breakfast of rice, egg and miso soup at the Coquelicot Manor in "From Up on Poppy Hill" | Image credit: Netflix

“From Up on Poppy Hill”

"Giri/Haji" | Image credit: Netflix

“Giri / Haji”: Masterful Storytelling, Stunning Visuals and Brilliant Acting

Liu Yifei as Mulan | Image credit: Disney

Mulan

  • About
  • Privacy & Usage
  • Full Archive

Everything © Connie Veneracion. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.