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Basic Miso Soup

Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Course Side Dish
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 2 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups filtered water
  • 1/2-1 tsp dried wakame
  • 3 tsp miso paste

Instructions
 

  • Soak wakame, until soft and expanded.
    Saoking wakame seaweed
  • Bring water to boil.
    Boiling water
  • Once wakame is soft; cut into small pieces.
    Slicing soaked wakame seaweed
  • Add wakame to cooking water, simmer a few minutes.
    Cooking sliced wakame seaweed
  • Reserve some cooking water to dissolve miso, stir miso and water until well blended.
    Mixing miso paste with water
  • Remove soup from heat; wait 30-60 seconds; add miso and stir.
    Adding miso paste to cooked wakame

Optional Additions :

  • carrots, celery, onion, daikon radish, burdock, kale, cabbage - add one or add all. Other vegetable options may also suite your palate.
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