Japanese cuisine, which has long been a secret to the rest of the world, has steadily gained popularity in recent years. This is not surprising, because her dishes are exotic enough to attract attention, but not too complicated to prepare. Many ingredients, previously only available to the Japanese, are now sold in ordinary supermarkets.
For example, a special
miso soya
paste, from which a delicious misonymous miso soup is made, may well be found on a shelf of a European grocery. Try this dish is definitely worth it - five minutes to cook and incredible taste as a result. So how to cook miso soup?
Classic recipe
The indicated ratio of products is designed for two servings. To make Japanese miso soup, you need five hundred milliliters of water, a couple tablespoons of miso paste, a spoonful of fish sauce, a couple of shiitake mushrooms, fifty grams of rice noodles, fifty grams of tofu soy cheese and fresh green onions. This recipe is also suitable for vegetarians, but you can use completely different ingredients. This is miso soup - you can put seaweed, vegetables, rice, egg, seafood, chicken or salmon in it. It will turn out delicious anyway. Let's start cooking. Boil water in a saucepan, reduce heat to a minimum, add miso paste and mix thoroughly so that it completely dissolves in the broth. If you want to add fish sauce, do it at this stage. The Japanese also use a special dashi broth instead, but it is very difficult to buy it in Europe, so you can try to replace it with others.
Put the mushrooms, cut into small slices, and noodles into the pan. Boil for several minutes without adding heat. Pour the finished miso soup into bowls or plates in which diced soy cheese and fresh onions are already prepared. To fully experience the taste of this classic Japanese dish, you can take a ceramic spoon instead of the usual one. However, a real Japanese could just drink the broth, and catch the food with chopsticks.
"European" miso soup
This version of the dish is suitable even for those who are very wary of culinary experiments. Almost all of its components are ordinary products consumed daily in familiar dishes. But Japanese notes are also present in this soup. In short, this recipe is ideal for conservatives.
You will need one hundred grams of chicken, twenty milliliters of rice vinegar, twenty grams of carrots, three hundred milliliters of mushroom broth, forty grams of miso paste, fifty grams of mushrooms, eighty grams of rice noodles, a little fresh onion and cilantro, one chili pepper. Cut the chicken in half, leave one half and cut the second into strips. Marinate in vinegar. Chop the carrots into thin strips, and cut the mushrooms into slices. Preheat the broth and cook rice noodles in it. Fry the remaining whole half of the fillet and cut it into thin slices. Add carrots, mushrooms, pickled chicken strips, miso pasta to the soup and stir. In a bowl to serve to the table, chop the fried chicken, chili and fresh herbs, fill them with soup and serve.