About Japanese Miso Soup (味噌汁)
Miso Soup (味噌汁 miso shiru)
Miso soup is a type of soup that is most commonly consumed in Japan. It has the soup base with DASHI stock made with seaweed or fish which has full of UMAMI. Traditionally the stock was prepared from the scratch but nowadays powdered or cube type of ready made stocks are popular. This trend is same aswestern way of using stock.
The miso is mixed into the soup for it’s distinctive flavour and for the nutrition benefit. You can purchase miso with dashi already mixed so you can skip the first stage of preparing the soup base. There are many different types of miso and mainly divided into red miso or white miso types. It is measured approximately one bowl =
15g of miso, but it would be depending on the size of the bowl or what’s in the soup.
You can add vegetables, tofu, fish, seaweed and shellfish into the soup. We basically put whatever available in the fridge.
Miso Soup in Western World
Japanese miso soup ready-made 
mix can be found any high street supermarket including express ones nowadays here in UK. This is a real revolution and I’m sure it will be the same in other western countries. Those miso soup mix only require certain amount of hot water to be added and you have it ready. The ready made miso soup, “Instant miso soup”, was first introduced in Japan in 1974 and is still very popular and appreciated in the busy life style.
***My father never starts a day without miso soup on his breakfast table. As a result, my day is somehow incomplete without having at least a bowl of miso soup in a day. My children seem to have inherited to the habit here in UK too and that makes my father happy.
