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Miso soup

The most famous Japanese soup
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Servings: 2 people
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: Japanese

Ingredients
  

Easy Dashi
  • 10 g Katsuo bushi
  • 500 ml boiling water
Miso soup
  • 1 block soft tofu (150g)
  • 1 tbs dried Wakame seaweed
  • 1 tbs chopped scallion
  • 1½〜2 tbs yellow Miso

Equipment

  • pot

Method
 

Easy Dashi
  1. Put Katsuobushi into a heat proof jar, pour boiling water over it.
    Let it steep for a while until the Katsuobushi sink to the bottom.
    Set a sieve on a pot, pass through Dashi and remove the Katsuobushi.
Miso soup
  1. Put dried Wakame seaweed in a small bowl, pour cold water and rehydrate.
  2. Dissolve miso in the Dashi while cooking on low heat.
  3. Add cubed soft Tofu, and rehydrated Wakame.
  4. Continue cooking just before boiling.
    Ladle to a bowl and top with chopped scalliion.
    Serve immediately.