Miso Soup With Tofu And Wakame

Miso soup is a broth recipe pretending to be a soup recipe. Everything rests on the dashi, and the dashi is made by steeping rather than boiling.

Kombu and dried shiitake between them supply all the savour that a fish stock would.

Miso soup takes twenty-five minutes, and twenty of those are the dashi steeping itself while you do nothing.

Never boil it once the miso is in — that single rule is the whole technique.