What exactly is miso soup:)?!

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Miso is a paste from Japan made from crushed soybeans, barley, rice or wheat and a mold known as koji. It is used quite often in Japanese Cooking.

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Most Japanese will consume miso as either a soup (miso soup) or as a sauce accompaniment to dishes. Miso Soup is typically served with most Japanese meals including breakfast along with rice and pickles. It has a distinctive taste and aroma and is quite salty. I absolutely love it and eat it most days with my meals.

Miso Soup usually contains tofu, wakame, and spring onion.

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Miso is a paste made from fermented soybeans. It's used in many ways in Japanese cooking but the most common is to make soup with green onions, little cubes of tofu, and little squares of seaweed (wakame is a type of seaweed) floating in it. It's typically served with meals at Japanese restaurants.

Miso soup generally has a slightly salty, roasted flavor. Try it. You've probably had it before, as another popular use for miso is as the soup base for ramen.

The character you're asking about is "me" as in "wakame".

Miso is a fermented soy bean paste that adds a rich flavor.
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Dashi is a basic stock used in Japanese cooking which is made by boiling dried kelp (seaweed) and dried bonito (fish). Instant dashi granules are sold in conveniently-sized jars or packets and vary in strength. Add more dashi to your soup if you want a stronger stock. You can use yellow, white or red miso paste for this soup. Yellow miso is sweet and creamy, red miso is stronger and saltier."

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Miso soup is basically just a broth soup made with a broth called "dashi" and then they mix miso paste into that. Kind of gives it a cloudy look, I'm not sure about instant though.

I think its tasty. I'm not sure how to describe the taste, kind of earthy and salty. Usually has chunks of tofu in it and some seaweed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miso_soup

it's just a salty soup lol but yeh it is mostly oily and a TINY bit cloudy tasting

-Fish stock called 'dashi' - dashi is like cereal corn flakes, but lighter and thinner, although there is also powdered dashi which is commonly used

-Miso paste made from fermented soybean - white miso paste / "l bought the darkest miso paste and l find it really salty" miso soup should be in white miso paste and not dark - dark miso paste is used in other Japanese culinary uses.

-Kombu seaweed - a large type of seaweed usually sold dried.
and you can include soft tofu or egg noodles with fresh spring onion

these are the original ingredients served in restaurants - other people are just trying to make it sound complicated