Our month of Japanese recipes continues!
Miso soup is a classic of Japanese restaurants — and Japanese homes. It’s a very common, basic and refreshing soup. It’s made using dashi, the “chicken stock” of Japanese cooking (Japanese cuisine rarely uses actual chicken stock, except in dishes where chicken is the main protein). You can make your own dashi from scratch (it’s not that hard, though you will need to make a trip to an Asian grocery store for bonito flakes), but it’s widely accepted practice to make it instead using powdered dashi soup base, the equivalent of bouillon cubes in Western cuisine. Having packets of dashi soup base stored in your pantry makes it incredibly quick and easy to make your own miso soup with just a handful of other common ingredients.
Recipe here.
Enjoy!
Kevin
