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sweet potato miso soup

Name: Sweet Potato Miso Soup
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 4 ounces sweet potato; 3 1/3 cups bonito soup stock; 3 or 4 tablespoons white or red miso

Serves: 4
Calories: 73 kcal
Total Time: 20 m
- Prep: 10 m
- Cook: 10 m
Japanese: Satsumaimo no miso-shiru

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ingredients:

4 ounces sweet potato
3 1/3 cups bonito soup stock
3 or 4 tablespoons white or red miso

step 1:

Wash the sweet potato and cut in half lengthwise. Slice the sweet potato into 1/2in.-wide pieces.

step 2:

Boil the bonito soup stock and add the sweet potato slices. Cover and boil for 7 minutes.

step 3:

Reduce the heat. Put some stock into a ladle. Add the miso to the ladle and stir with chopsticks until it is dissolved. Stir into the soup. Cover and simmer for a couple of minutes. Remove from heat.

comment:

This dish is eaten often in the Kyūshū region, the southernmost island of mainland Japan. Miso suits the sweet taste of the sweet potato well.

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