Basic Miso Soup
Ingredients
- 3 teaspoons wakame seaweed or 1 teaspoon wakame seaweed flakes
- 4 cups water
- ½ cup onions, thinly sliced
- ½ cup carrots, diced
- 1½ tablespoons barley miso|mugi miso (or 1½ tbsp + ½ tsp hatcho miso|hacho, brown rice miso|genmai or white miso|shiro miso)
- 3 tablespoons green onions, finely sliced
- Optional ingredients:
- fresh or dried tofu
- shiitake mushrooms
- leafy greens
- daikon
- lotus root
- leeks
- round or root vegetables
- cooked noodles or grains
- Rinse wakame; soak in cold water to cover for 5 minutes and dice, or if using flakes, add directly.
- Bring water to a boil.
- Add onions and wakame; simmer 3 minutes.
- Add the carrots and simmer 5 more minutes; reduce heat to very low.
- Add miso and simmer 2 minutes (do not boil after adding miso).
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