Cooking with Dashi: The Japanese Soup Stock

Want to make your own miso soup?
The requisite chef's of Japanese cuisine are masters of flavor, often producing genuinely authentic, highly flavorful dishes from the simplest of ingredients. Usually working with all natural ingredients, a Japanese dish is often loaded with vitamins and nutrients, contributing to a healthy lifestyle.

Miso soup is familiar to many, a mainstay in most Japanese restaurants, addictively delicious and surprisingly healthy. But a lesser known, yet highly fundamental soup stock used primarily in Japanese culture is known as dashi, which often serves as the base for miso soup. Read more...