Seven Vegetable Miso Soup Recipes

MILD MISO SOUP

Steps:

• Put the water in a large saucepan. Add 3/4 of the scallions, reserving the rest. Add the mushrooms, ginger and carrot. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, cover, and turn the heat down to medium-low. Simmer until the vegetables are soft, about 30 minutes.
• Strain the broth through a fine sieve. Remove the mushrooms from the sieve and reserve. Discard the remaining vegetables. Return the broth to the saucepan over low heat. Thinly slice the mushrooms and add them to the broth along with the remaining scallions. Stir in the miso thoroughly, never allowing the mixture to boil. Stir in the tofu. Serve warm.

SEVEN-VEGETABLE MISO SOUP

Steps:

• Put the burdock, sweet potato, ginger, scallions, and 5 cups water in a saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat. Decrease the heat and add the soy sauce and a dash of salt. Simmer, covered, for 15 minutes. Add the tofu and shiitakes and simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes more.
• Place the miso in a small bowl and add 1/2 cup of the hot broth. Use a fork to break up the miso and whisk it until smooth. Drain the wakame and add it to the saucepan. Add the egg if using and stir. Turn off the heat and stir the dissolved miso into the saucepan. Taste and season with salt, if necessary.
• To serve, divide the cilantro leaves evenly among the bowls and ladle the hot soup on top.

VEGAN MISO SOUP

Steps:

• Set an oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler. Coat tofu with 2 teaspoons olive oil and black pepper. Place on a baking sheet.
• Broil in the preheated oven, stirring occasionally, to lightly crisp tops and bottoms, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Heat remaining olive oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add carrots and onion and stir-fry until tender, about 5 minutes. Add mushrooms, garlic, and turmeric. Stir in water, vegetable broth, and quinoa. Reduce heat and let simmer for 5 minutes. Add tofu and kale; cover, and let simmer for 3 minutes. Whisk in miso; turn off heat and stir in bell pepper and green onions. Serve immediately.

VEGETABLE MISO SOUP

Steps:

• Soak dried shiitake mushroom in a bowl of warm water, make sure mushrooms are covered. (about half an hour before use).
• Soak wakame in a bowl of warm water, at least a cup of water. Make sure there's lots of water because wakame will expand about 10 times.
• In a medium size pot. Bring 4 cups of water to a boil, drop in the dashi stock package (like tea bags) and simmer for about 3 minutes. There's also the dashi stock in the powder form, just empty package into boiling water. Or follow directions on package to make dashi stock.
• Or bring vegetable or fish stock to a boil.
• While water or stock is heating. Clean, peel and slice vegetables. To make carrots and daikons more visually appealling, I cut them into flowers and leaves. To make flowers: peel carrot/daikon, make odd number of triangular notches (lengthwise) down the length of the carrot. Discard the notches. Slice the carrot crosswise into flower shapes. To make leaves: peel daidon, slice into thin rounds, use the tip of a very sharp knife and shape into leaves.
• Add carrots and daikon into dashi pot and bring back to boil.
• Squeeze water out of mushrooms. Remove tough stem. Slice thinly.
• Add mushrooms to pot. Bring to boil.
• Drain wakame and chop randomly into smaller pieces if they are larger than 1" square. Add to soup. Bring to boil.
• Drain tofu. Slice into 1/2 inch cubes. Add to soup. Bring to a gentle boil. Be gentle from this point on as you don't want to break of the tofu pieces.
• Put about 1 tablespoon of miso paste into a small bowl, put a laddle of hot soup stock only, no chunks, from the pot into the bowl and stir to dissolve miso paste with stock. Pour back into pot. Repeat with remaining miso paste.
• Once you add miso to the soup, make sure the pot does not come to a hard boil but stays in a very gentle simmer or hot because you don't want the miso to curdle.
• Taste and add sea salt if desired. Laddle into bowls.
• Garnish with thinly sliced green onions.

SEVEN VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in slow cooker EXCEPT creamed spinach and cheese.
• Cover: cook on low heat setting for 8 to 10 hours or until carrots and potatoes are tender.
• Increase heat setting to High.
• Just before serving, stir thawed spinach into hot soup mixture, stirring constantly.
• Cook, stirring occasionally until soup is thickened (6 to 10 minutes).
• To serve, spoon into individual serving bowls, sprinkle with cheese.
• +++Okay, now here is how I did it: Everything went into a 8 quart pot on stove, except spinach and cheese cook on medium-low for 7-8 hours.
• Stir occasionally.
• Will serve with the cheese.
• As I said, I'm cooking it now!
• Will go great with cornbread and sweet potatoes!