Miso Soup

Today, I'm gonna talk about traditional Japanese soup 'Miso Soup'. It is the most common sidedish and it can be eaten with any food. When I was youger, my mother used to cook it with lots of ingredients. There are a lot of types of Miso Soup, but this time I will explain how to cook 'Miso Soup with Tohu', which is my favorite.

The ingredients are...
7 g dried kelp (Hoshi wakame), 1/2 block tofu, 4 cups dashi (niboshi dashi), 80-90 g miso.
(This amount of ingredients are for 4 people)

How to cook
1, Soak kelp (wakame) in warm water, remove hard stems and rinse with water, strain with net and cut into    bite size pieces.
2, Heat dashi without bringing it to a boil.
3, Smash miso through a net ladel  into dashi, when it is about to boil remove foam rising on the top.
4, Add wakame in the soup

5, Place tofu on palm, cut lengthwise and then into 1/8 th pieces. Slide into soup.

6, When tofu floats to the top, turn off heat.

 posted dy Daichi