TRADITIONAL DISHES

MISO SOUP.

Ingredients.

· 3 cups homemade dashi or see how to make quick dashi below (use Kombu Dashi for vegetarian)

· 3 Tbsp. miso (I use awase miso (red+ white miso))

· 6 oz silken tofu or soft tofu

· 2 tsp. dried ready-to-use wakame (seaweed)

· 1 green onion/scallion

Cooking method.

In a medium saucepan, add water and dashi packet (some brand of dashi packet may ask you to add the packet after boiling). If you are using dashi powder, bring water to a boil and stir in the dashi powder and it's ready to use.
Bring it to a boil over medium high heat. After boiling, reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 5 minutes.
Discard the packet and dashi is ready to use.
Put 1 Tbsp. of miso in a ladle (or strainer) and blend it with dashi until it is thoroughly mixed. Continue this process until miso is all used. Usually each cup of dashi, you will need about 1 Tbsp. of miso. If you add tofu in your miso soup, tofu dilutes the soup a little bit so you might want to add ½ Tbsp. more miso.
Cut tofu into ½" (1 cm) cubes and add to the soup. Stir gently without breaking the tofu.
Soak dried wakame in water to rehydrate for 10 minutes and drain well.
Finely slice the green onion and put the wakame and green onion in each bowl.
Return the miso soup to a slight simmer until heated through and pour into the bowls. Be careful not to boil the miso soup because miso will lose flavor.

Presentation.

Miso soup can be prepared in several ways, depending on the chef and the style of soup.

Where and where the dish is eaten.

Is the most popular dish in japan

In Japan, miso soup and white rice make up the central dishes of the traditional Japanese breakfast and they also eat miso soup for lunch and dinner.

The most traditional Japanese meal is a serving of plain, white rice, along with a main dish (fish or meat), some kind of side dish (often cooked vegetables), soup (either miso soup or clear broth), and pickled vegetables.

In a medium saucepan, add water and dashi packet (some brand of dashi packet may ask you to add the packet after boiling). If you are using dashi powder, bring water to a boil and stir in the dashi powder and it's ready to use.

Bring it to a boil over medium high heat. After boiling, reduce the heat to medium low and simmer for 5 minutes.

Discard the packet and dashi is ready to use.

Cut tofu into ½" (1 cm) cubes and add to the soup. Stir gently without breaking the tofu.

Soak dried wakame in water to rehydrate for 10 minutes and drain well.

Finely slice the green onion and put the wakame and green onion in each bowl.

Return the miso soup to a slight simmer until heated through and pour into the bowls. Be careful not to boil the miso soup because miso will lose flavor.