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Vegetable Miso Soup

A hearty miso soup with celery, zucchini, carrot, straw mushrooms and spinach, built on instant miso packets for speed. Pass extra soy sauce at the table.

  • YieldServes 4
  • Hands-on25 min
  • Total37 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Soup

  • 1 tbsptoasted sesame oil, for cooking
  • 1 stalkcelery, chopped
  • 3scallions, thinly sliced, whites and greens separated
  • 170 gzucchini, 1 medium, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
  • 55 gcarrot, 1 small, thinly sliced
  • 425 gcanned straw mushroom pieces, 1 can, drained very well
  • 240 mllow-sodium vegetable broth
  • 720 mlwater
  • 2vegan instant miso soup packets, red or white; check the label for fish
  • 1 tbsplow-sodium soy sauce, plus more to serve
  • to tasteblack pepper, freshly ground

Finish

  • 55 gbaby spinach, coarsely torn
  • 1 tsptoasted sesame oil, for finishing

Diet

  • Vegetarian (lacto-ovo)
  • Vegan

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Soy
  • Fish
  • Sesame
  • Celery
  • Bonito
  • Legumes (any)
  • Wheat
  • Barley
  • Rice
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Tomato
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Garlic
  • Scallion (green onion)
  • Spinach
  • Zucchini
  • Carrot
  • Black and white pepper
  • Mushrooms (any)
  • Straw mushroom
  • Mold-ripened and koji-fermented foods
  • Seaweed (any)
  • Wakame
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)

Taste

  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh
  • Aromatic spice

Texture

  • Brothy

Equipment

  • Stovetop

Season

  • Any season

Occasion

  • Weeknight

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • 30–60 min total
  • Difficulty 1
  • One pot

Nutrition

  • Calories: low
  • Protein: low
  • Carbs: low
  • Fat: low
  • Fiber: moderate
  • Sodium: high

Budget

  • Budget: low

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