Loaded Miso Soup

By Mark Bittman

Loaded Miso Soup
Yunhee Kim for The New York Times; Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Megan Hedgpeth.
Total Time
20 minutes
Rating
4(1,140)
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Many vegan dishes (like fruit salad and peanut butter and jelly) are already beloved, but the problem faced by many of us is in imagining less-traditional dishes that are interesting and not challenging. Miso soup is a more adventurous, though no more complicated, option to try.

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Ingredients

Yield:2 to 4 servings
  • 1strip kombu (dried kelp)
  • 1handful sliced shiitake mushrooms
  • ½cup miso
  • Carrots
  • Turnips
  • Ginger
  • 1handful cooked edamame
  • ½pound silken tofu, cubed
  • Scallions
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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Bring 6 cups of water to a bare simmer and add one strip kombu; let it soak 10 minutes, then remove it and chop; set aside.

  2. Step 2

    Meanwhile, saute a handful of sliced shiitakes in oil until crisp.

  3. Step 3

    Whisk a cup of the water with ½ cup miso in a bowl until smooth.

  4. Step 4

    Pour the miso mix into the water and add ½ pound silken tofu along with some shredded carrots, turnip and ginger, the chopped kombu and about a handful of cooked, shelled edamame.

  5. Step 5

    Let stand long enough to heat the tofu through, about a minute. Add some chopped scallions and the crisp shiitakes and serve.

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Japanese

Nobody makes miso soup like this in Japan. Kind of fake. You add miso after turning off the heat so that miso's flavor is preserved. Boiling heat kills the flavor.

W_Albany

In my house, miso soup is what we make when we are in a rush. I put baby bok choy, sliced mushrooms, and frozen Chinese dumplings in boiling water. The dumplings float to the top when they are done. Then I turn off the heat and stir in the miso (previously thinned with some water). Easy, healthy, and good.

Denise

I read the David Tanis recipe for mushroom miso soup and mixed it with this recipe. I sautéed oyster, shiitake and enoki mushrooms and set aside. Simmered 6 cups of water with 2 tsp mirin, 3 tsp soy sauce and 2 tsp sugar. I sliced 2/3 turnip, grated 1/2 carrot, grated about 1/2 tsp ginger, 3 scallions. Simmered broth a while and added sliced vegetables. Finally I took 1/2 cup of the broth and stirred in 1/2 cup white miso to dissolve and added it to the broth. So easy and so delicious.

Greg

I use bonito flakes in the stock as well.

Jill

Jelly is not usually vegan- gelatinne.

Diane Miller

From the headnote it's clear this is meant to be a vegan adaptation, thus it isn't made with Dashi, which includes katsuobushi (fish flakes) with Kombu. It's a creative take on Miso Soup. Fun.

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