Creamy Dango Miso Soup
Miso is a fermented soybean paste, mixed with salt and koji mold.
There is a wide variety of Miso pastes in Japan. White, light brown, brown, deep brown, mild, salty, mixed with barley... This is because of the region in which they originated, related to the climate and daily life style of that area.
Miso soup is a famous Japanese healthy soup, mixing Miso paste with fish broth and adding tofu or vegetables. At breakfast, lunch, dinner, buffet, restaurants, schools, home... Miso soup is served on many occasions and in many ways!
Dango is a sticky rice powder ball which is mixed with water and then kneaded well.
When I was a kid, my grandmother always made a special dango miso soup for me at breakfast whenever I stayed overnight. Even after I grew up, or for a short visit, she always made it for me. Dango miso soup is my favorite and reminds me of my grandmother!
You can get fish broth packets, miso paste and dango powder in the US through Amazon or Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati, OH, if you are near there.
Creamy Dango Miso Soup
Miso is a fermented soybean paste, mixed with salt and koji mold.
There is a wide variety of Miso pastes in Japan. White, light brown, brown, deep brown, mild, salty, mixed with barley... This is because of the region in which they originated, related to the climate and daily life style of that area.
Miso soup is a famous Japanese healthy soup, mixing Miso paste with fish broth and adding tofu or vegetables. At breakfast, lunch, dinner, buffet, restaurants, schools, home... Miso soup is served on many occasions and in many ways!
Dango is a sticky rice powder ball which is mixed with water and then kneaded well.
When I was a kid, my grandmother always made a special dango miso soup for me at breakfast whenever I stayed overnight. Even after I grew up, or for a short visit, she always made it for me. Dango miso soup is my favorite and reminds me of my grandmother!
You can get fish broth packets, miso paste and dango powder in the US through Amazon or Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati, OH, if you are near there.
Cooking Instructions
- 1
Put water and fish broth packets in a pan and wait 30 mins.
- 2
Peel and slice vegetables. I'm using radish, carrots, burdock and konnyaku this time.
- 3
If you want to add potatoes or sweet potatoes, soak in water for 10 mins. to remove any scum.
- 4
Take out 160 ml of water which soaked the fish broth packets in the pan and pour in the bowl. * Depends on the dango powder you will use, the amount of water might be slightly different. Follow the indicated guide of the packages.
- 5
Put vegetables into the pan and stew with low heat.
- 6
Put dango rice powder in the bowl and knead well.
- 7
Scoop some and make an one - bite size flat round shape and put in the pan as soon as it's made.
- 8
Once the dango is cooked, it comes to the surface just like gnocchi pasta.
- 9
Put the miso paste in, melt well, and stew with low heat for 15 mins.. You can add a pouched egg if you like. My grandmother put one in for breakfast.
- 10
Stop the heat, take out fish broth packets and rest the soup for 30 mins., and then heat again to serve.
- 11
While resting & cooling down, the good flavor of miso will soak deep inside the ingredients and a slight amount of dango rice powder melts into the soup. It makes this soup rich & creamy, just like a white stew.
- 12
Pour the soup into a serving bowl and put some green onion on top for a nice presentation!
- 13
You can make the miso soup with your favorite vegetables! This is the one I cooked with sweet potatoes the other day. Tofu & wakame seaweed combination is also good!
- 14
You can get all the ingredients I used here at Jungle Jim's in Cincinnati, OH. They are in the Japanese section. White miso is the light yellow / beige one, dango powder is the blue one (Joushinko, pink one, is also okay if dango powder is not available.)
- 15
Konnyaku jelly is the gray slimy rectangle one just above the tofu. It is made from the a potato called the "devil's tongue". It is a Japanese healthy food which is low in fat and contains lots of fiber, to reduce absorbing cholesterol and sugar. Also has effects to prevent diabetes, high blood pressure, and arteriosclerosis.
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