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Miso soup

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

Equipment

  • pot

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

Instructions
 

Easy Dashi

  • 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

  • Put dried Wakame seaweed in a small bowl, pour cold water and rehydrate.
  • Dissolve miso in the Dashi while cooking on low heat.
  • Add cubed soft Tofu, and rehydrated Wakame.
  • Continue cooking just before boiling.
    Ladle to a bowl and top with chopped scalliion.
    Serve immediately.
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