Miso Noodle Bowl with Crispy Tofu & Shiitake
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A deeply savoury, ramen-style bowl built on a kombu and shiitake broth enriched with miso, filled with buckwheat noodles, golden sesame tofu, pak choi, wakame and fresh red chilli.
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Make the broth
Put the water, kombu (dried seaweed) and dried shiitake in a pot. Leave them to soak for 20 minutes. Heat slowly. As soon as small bubbles appear, take out the kombu. Let the shiitake bubble gently. This simple broth is called dashi.
Prepare the mushrooms
Lift out the shiitake, slice them and discard the tough stalks. Keep the broth warm over a low heat.
Crisp the tofu
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Season the broth
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Cook the noodles and greens
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Assemble
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Make the broth
Put the water, kombu (dried seaweed) and dried shiitake in a pot. Leave them to soak for 20 minutes. Heat slowly. As soon as small bubbles appear, take out the kombu. Let the shiitake bubble gently. This simple broth is called dashi.
Prepare the mushrooms
Lift out the shiitake, slice them and discard the tough stalks. Keep the broth warm over a low heat.
Crisp the tofu
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Season the broth
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Cook the noodles and greens
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Assemble
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The Story Behind the Dish
Japan's Buddhist temple cuisine, shōjin ryōri, has made meat-free broths for centuries, replacing fish-based dashi with kombu seaweed and dried shiitake mushrooms. Miso, a fermented soybean paste, has seasoned Japanese food for well over a thousand years.
Miso ramen itself was born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in the 1950s, and quickly spread across Japan. This bowl combines the two traditions: a temple-style vegan dashi with the rich, warming miso of a Sapporo noodle soup.
⭐ Why It's Famous
Kombu and shiitake deliver so much savoury depth that the broth needs no meat or fish at all — a perfect showcase for plant-based umami.
💡 Fun Fact
In 1908 the Japanese chemist Kikunae Ikeda identified umami — the 'fifth taste' — while studying the glutamate in kombu dashi.
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