Last one-NOT TNT--Immunity-boosting miso soup

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Immunity-boosting miso soup

 

 

Serving size: Serves 4

Cooking time: Less than 30 minutes

 

 

 

A healthy recipe for miso soup that can help to promote 'friendly

bacteria' within the gut, helping to prevent a range of conditions

 

INGREDIENTS

 

 

Half a cup wakame or kombu seaweed

Three tablespoons miso paste (gen mai)

Four shiitake or reishi mushrooms (dried or fresh)

One and a half cups of chopped vegetables (leek, onion, carrot,

cabbage, turnips, potatoes, sweet potatoes)

Four to five cups of water (or vegetable stock or seaweed soaking

water)

One teaspoom sesame oil.

One teaspoon ginger, grated

One clove of garlic, minced

 

 

 

 

METHOD

 

 

If you are using dried mushrooms, soak mushrooms in boiling water

for one hour, discard the stems and soaking water.

 

Soak seaweed in water (wakame: 20 min, kombu: 4 min), keep soaking

water. Cut seaweed into strips.

 

Sauté seaweed and vegetables in a pan with a little oil.

 

Add water and bring to boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer covered

for 10 minutes. Then add tofu pieces.

 

Cream miso in a little broth and return to soup. Cook on low heat

for a couple of minutes. Do not overheat miso as it will destroy the

active lactobacillus (beneficial bacteria).

 

Garnish (seeds, toasted nori flakes, chives, parsley). Serves four.