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Today’s miso soup is made with asparagus, onion, and ham. This is a quick and easy miso soup to make when asparagus is in season. Anytime from March through June, bundles of fresh asparagus are featured in the produce section of grocery stores. Asparagus is incredibly versatile and you can use it in any types of Japanese cooking from ohitashit to stir-frying (more asparagus recipes here!) Here we made a simple miso soup with onion and ham. It’s so easy to make with ingredients you already have at home.

Soup curry is a type of curry-flavored soup served with lightly fried vegetables and steamed rice. Unlike traditional curry, it has a lighter consistency, and the rice is typically served separately, allowing diners to dip the rice into the soup as they eat. Soup curry is known for its light flavor and abundant vegetables, and it has become more of a staple rather than just a trend, joining typical Japanese curry dishes in many menus.

Miso Soup (味噌汁) is a traditional Japanese soup, and it’s served with any Japanese meal at any time of the day. Tofu and wakame seaweed miso soup is probably the most well known and popular, but the possibilities of ingredients are endless. You can use all sorts of meat, seafood, eggs, and vegetables that you already have in your fridge at home.

If making Dashi stock from scratch sounds too much work, you can use instant dashi packet or powder that are readily available online and at supermarkets. They are very convenient and flavorful, and we use it, too, on a regular basis. Most of our miso soup recipes are ready in 15 to 20 minutes! Hope you can try one of our simple and easy recipes below, or you can come up with your own combinations of ingredients. 

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Today’s miso soup is made with pea sprouts and eggs. Pea sprouts (豆苗) are often used for stir fried dishes in Asian cooking, but they are also great in soup. This healthy and nutritious soup takes little time to prepare, and it’s perfect for breakfast.

Instant dashi packet is used in this recipe, but you can certainly use any types of dashi. Please check Back to Basics: How to Make Dashi to learn more about different types of dashi.

Today’s miso soup is made with kimchi and tofu. This miso soup is inspired by Korean Kimchi soup or Kimchi Jjigae, but it is not the authentic Korean soup. It’s rather a simple Japanese miso soup with kimchi in it. It’s lighter and milder than jigae (Korean stew).

You can have the soup simply as it is, or add some thinly sliced pork, seafood, or eggs to make it heartier.