Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Hearty Miso Soup with Fall Vegetables

Hearty Miso Soup with Fall Vegetables. We are introducing "Taberu" Omisoshiru, miso soup "for eating." We've been making this quick and easy miso soup with lots of ingredients in our house. Homepage > Recipes > Soup Recipes > Hearty Miso Soup Recipe (The Healthiest Japanese Food with Plenty of Vegetables). Usually I serve miso soup as part of our "sushi meal." I make or buy vegetable sushi rolls, cook some edamame, toss some green leafies with some tahini dressing, and make a simple miso soup.

The broth is light and bright. Pale lager beer adds the mellow flavors of barley, hops, and malt to a rich vegetable stew. Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables. You can have Hearty Miso Soup with Fall Vegetables using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Hearty Miso Soup with Fall Vegetables

1. Prepare 800 ml of Dashi stock.
2. You need 2 tbsp of Miso.
3. You need 1 tsp of Sweet potato.
4. It's 80 grams of Shimeji mushrooms.
5. You need 1/2 of The white part of a Japanese leek.
6. You need 2 of Atsuage.

This is quite different from the usual miso soup as miso soups are normally just vegetables with no oil in them. Because of the fat content in this soup, people in Japan serve tonjiru in winter time, just like the Western style hearty. Fall weather means hearty, belly-warming soups. Now that the mornings are brisk and the nights are long, cozying up to a steaming bowl of soup is just what the doctor ordered.

Hearty Miso Soup with Fall Vegetables step by step

1. Chop the sweet potato and atsuage into bite-sized pieces. Shred the shimeji mushrooms. Slice the leek diagonally..
2. Add dashi stock, and all the ingredients in a pot, and turn on the heat..
3. Skim off the scum carefully..
4. When the sweet potato is cooked through, turn off the heat, and dissolve the miso in the soup..
5. Heat again without bringing to a boil, and it's done..

Miso soup is like a Japanese version of minestrone — lots of vegetables, and made with mum's (or grandma's) love. Just as each family or region in Italy uses different minestrone ingredients and flavours, Japanese miso soup varies too. This is a tasty, low-fat soup. It's all vegetables, beans and rice so there's not a lot of calories, either. You can replace the soy sauce with low sodium soy sauce, if desired.