Miso Soup - Vegan Recipe Club

Ingredients

• Dashi (base stock)
• 1 1/2 L home-made vegetable stock or water
• 5-6 small dried shiitake mushrooms or use larger, fresh shiitake
• 2 tbsp mirin (rice wine) or medium sherry
• 1 strip kombu
• Soup
• 1 stick celery, finely chopped
• 1 large carrot, finely diced or sliced on largest section of grater
• ¼ cup shoyu soya sauce
• 1 tsp grated fresh root ginger
• Optional
• Cooked brown rice or cooked soba (buckwheat) noodles
• Tofu chunks – e.g. Cauldron deep-fried or a firm, flavoured tofu
• 1 cup cooked pulses, e.g. chick peas; whole lentils any colour; aduki beans
• Nori flakes for a condiment