Thinly sliced chicken thigh fillets and fresh oyster mushrooms are cooked with herbs and spices. The soup is sour and spicy with a lovely citrusy aroma.
A side dish of blanched spinach and sliced shiitake mushrooms tossed with ground roasted sesame seeds, dashi, Japanese soy sauce, mirin, sugar and sesame oil.
If you think that authentic miso soup should have only three solid ingredients — tofu, wakame and scallions — you might be in for a surprise. There are so many other ingredients that can be added to miso soup. Tofu is not even always a must.
A blend of fresh, dried and fermented ingredients, this soup is cooked with fresh cabbage and tomatoes, dried wakame and narutomaki, and fermented soy beans in the form of miso paste.
A blend of Japanese (soy sauce eggs and ramen noodles) and Vietnamese flavors (pickled carrot and radish, and mixed fish sauce dressing), this filling salad makes a complete meal.