Today’s miso soup uses Satsumaimo Japanese sweet potato.(さつまいも) Satsumaimo is a great vegetable for sweet dishes and desserts, and it works in miso soup very well too. You can add meat and other vegetables to this, but we wanted it to be simple here so that the taste of sweet potato is accentuated in the dish. Enjoy the flavor combination of Satsumaimo’s mild sweetness and savory miso. Hope you like it!
Miso Soup with Satsumaimo Sweet Potato
Ingredients
- 4 cups Dashi
- 1 green onion
- 1 Satsumaimo (Japanese sweet potato)
- 4 Tbsp Miso paste
Instructions
- Make Dashi broth with Katsuobushi bonito flakes. Or you can use a Dashi packet according to our Dashi recipe.
- Slice green onion thinly. Cut sweet potato into 1/2" (1 cm) thick rounds. Soak potato rounds in water for a few minutes.
- Cook potato in Dashi for 10 minutes or until tender. Dissolve Miso paste in the soup. Add green onion just before serving.
