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.
Cook a pack of instant ramen, add mushrooms, pork slices and kimchi. Top with cheese slices and leave to melt. Transfer to a bowl, garnish with scallions and drop in a raw egg yolk.
It has all the contrasts you can dream about in a dish. Contrasting sweet, salty, tangy and spicy flavors. There’s plenty of textural contrast too with the combination of juicy cucumber and crunchy peanuts.
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.