Asian Soup Recipes for the every day person

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Potato Soup

Asian Soup Tip

Every time you make a dinner with vegetables and meal that you have left over’s from, just place the them into a baggy and freeze. When you want to make soup put all of you veggies into a pot and cook to your liking!!! Add meat and enjoy!!

In Japan Miso soup is one of the main items at breakfast and is usually eaten with rice, eggs, fish, and pickles. The soup is also served for lunch or dinner with more complex garnishes.

Dashi is a basic stock, made with dried bonito flakes, that is used extensively in Japanese cooking. Its clarity and flavor can make or break a dish.

Yield: Serves 6

Active Time: 10 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

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Ingredients1/2 cup dried wakame (a type of seaweed)
1/4 cup shiro miso (white fermented-soybean paste)
6 cups Dashi
1/2 pound soft tofu, drained and cut into 1/2-inch cubes
1/4 cup thinly sliced scallion greens


Preparation

Prepare wakame:
Combine wakame with warm water to cover by 1 inch and let stand 15 minutes, or until reconstituted. Drain in a sieve.

Make soup:
Stir together miso and 1/2 cup dashi in a bowl until smooth. Heat remaining dashi in a saucepan over moderately high heat until hot, then gently stir in tofu and reconstituted wakame. Simmer 1 minute and remove from heat. Immediately stir in miso mixture and scallion greens and serve.

 

Soup Recipe Facts

Soup recipe facts that i bet you didn't know...

Who Eats more Soup, Men or Women?

When it comes to eating soup who do you think eats more of the supper food? Well if you said Women then you would be right. It seems that women are more likely to eat soup for lunch that men are by 2 to 1. Could be that women tend to watch their weigh more than men and soup is a great diet food.

The French Name Soup

Did you know that the word ‘Soup’  came from the French like most food words. It was used sometime in the 16th century to depict a cheap soup that was hawked by street merchants and was called “Restaurer”. These street merchants claimed it was a cure for what ailed you.

 

Thats alot of soup

Soup is one of the most consumed food groups in the United States. Americans eat over 10,000,000,000 (that’s Billion) Bowls of soup in a year. Now that is a lot of soup.

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