The Japanese Miso Cookbook: Savory, nourishing recipes to add flavor to rice, soup, and your everyday meals

Are you looking for a new way to expand your cooking knowledge and make your meals more exciting? Do you love the rich, complex miso flavor in a bowl of miso soup? Or swirling it into plain rice to make a delicious, protein-rich side dish? If that sounds good to you, you'll want this Japanese Miso Cookbook! Throughout Asia, people have been cooking with miso for centuries. Miso is fermented soybean paste with complex salty and sweet flavors perfect for everything from dipping sauces to soups and rice dishes.

These days, you might be thinking of miso as a condiment for steamed fish and sushi. But it has just as much flavor when added to rice or soup or used to marinate meat, poultry, and vegetables. When you use miso, you join a culinary tradition that stretches back hundreds of years in Japan and China and even longer in Korea.

The Japanese Miso Cookbook is packed with more than 50 recipes, including soups and salads, one-pot dishes, and main courses. You will learn how to use the correct amount of miso depending on the dish you are preparing. You'll find it easy to master even the most complicated recipes with simple step-by-step instructions.

Miso is a great way to add flavor to your cooking without adding fat. Consider it a blank canvas on which to create your culinary masterpieces. Here are just a few of the ways you can use miso:

• For a rich and savory salad dressing.
• For dipping sauces for fresh and cooked vegetables.
• As a seasoning for popcorn, pan-fried rice cakes, and fried rice balls.
• To add richness to vegetable and tofu stir-fries or soups (if you don't want to use butter).
• To flavor cooking oils, soups, and sauces (in a pinch, you can also use your cooking oil).
• For seasoning or marinating meats and poultry.
• As a condiment for drinking tea.

I hope you will enjoy discovering the countless ways you can use miso in your dishes and will be inspired to explore the other delicious ways miso can be used in your cooking! I highly recommend this cookbook for anyone who wants to learn other ways to prepare Asian dishes at home.