Name: White Turnips in Dark Bean Soup (Kokabu No Miso Shiru )
Yield: Serves 4.
Cuisine: Japan
Ingredients: 1½ tablespoons Sendai miso (dark bean paste); 3 cups dashi (Basic Soup Stock); 1 scant teaspoon soy sauce; ¼ teaspoon salt; 4–6 small white turnips, with their leaves

Preparation info

Serves
4
.

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

At Home with Japanese Cooking

By Elizabeth Andoh

Published 1986

About

Pearly white turnips are in season in the cold months in Tokyo and I make this Andoh “house special” often. A simple, nutritious and delicious soup.

Ingredients

3 cups dashi (Basic Soup Stock)
1 scant teaspoon soy sauce
¼

Method

Heat the soup stock in a saucepan and season it with the soy sauce and salt. Peel the turnips and quarter them, and save 5–6 of the prettiest green leaves. (If there are none, substitute a few leaves of fresh spinach, collard greens or chrysanthemum leaves.) Add the turnip pieces to the seasoned stock and simmer them for 4–5 minutes, or unt