Japanese Napa Cabbage Soup

Japanese Napa Cabbage Soup is creamy with soy milk and flavorful with miso and dashi (soup stock). It's a cozy and hearty soup that is perfect for lunch on a cold day.

Are you looking for a healthy and hearty soup to make you warm up?

Napa cabbage (or Hakusai in Japanese) is a delicious vegetable in the cold season. One of the best ways to eat it is making soup.

This recipe is a simple miso soup with soy milk. Napa cabbage gets tender by simmering, and miso and dashi add a nice aroma and flavor.

This recipe is for you if:
• You are looking for napa cabbage recipes
• You want to make napa cabbage soup
• You love Japanese miso soup

Do you want to feel warm and relaxed? This soup is perfect fo you! Let's get started!

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• About this recipe
• 📋 Ingredients
• 🔪Instructions
• Variations
• What to serve with
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About this recipe

• Japanese flavor napa cabbage soup
• Use dashi stock and miso
• Vegan and vegetarian adaptable

📋 Ingredients

Here are the ingredients (amounts are in the recipe card below).

• Napa Cabbage: We use ¼ napa cabbage.
• Other vegetables: We use shimeji mushrooms and carrots in this recipe, but you can also use other vegetables such as onion, potatoes, broccoli, etc.
• Aburaage: It's deep-fried tofu. You can find it at an Asian grocery store. I like to pick a thick one as it's chewy and soak the soup very well.
• Soy Milk: We use plain soy milk with no sugar, and no flavor added. You can substitute it with other milk.
• Dashi Powder: Dashi is Japanese soup stock and we use bonito dashi powder. If you want to make dashi from scratch, you might want to try Awase dashi or Niboshi dashi recipe. If you are a vegan/vegetarian, you might want to try Shiitake kombu dashi recipe.
• Miso: We use authentic miso made from soybeans, koji, and salt. (If you buy miso, please do not choose the one that contains dashi).

🔪Instructions

I will walk you through how to make it step by step. You can also watch this video.

1. Cut ingredients: Cut napa cabbage into pieces, remove the bottom of shimeji and separate them, cut carrots and aburaage into strips.
2. Bring to a boil: Put vegetables, water, and dashi powder in a pot, and bring to a boil over medium heat.
3. Simmer: Simmer on low heat for 5 minutes or until the vegetables become tender.
4. Add soy milk: Add soy milk, and turn off the heat before start boiling.
5. Add miso: Add miso and melt.

Enjoy this hearty soup while it's warm!

If you have leftover, let it cool down completely and transfer it to a jar and keep it in the frideg for 3 days.

Variations

These are easy ideas to have more variations on napa cabbage soup.

• Simple miso soup: Omit soy milk.
• Tomato soup: Substitute soymilk with tomato juice.
• Stew: Stir fry the ingredients in oil, add the flour and mix, change bonito dashi powder into a vegetable broth, it becomes a cream stew.

What to serve with

Why don't you serve it with these dishes and have a Japanese-style meal?

• Japanese short-grain rice
• Vegetarian tofu hambagu
• Tuna and green tamagoyaki
• Cucumber salad

Thanks for Stopping By

It's easy, simple and hearty soup. I hope you will enjoy the recipe.

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Chef JA Cooks is a Japanese food blog that shares simple and healthy Japanese home cooking recipes include vegan and vegetarian. From traditional Japanese recipes to modern recipes with step-by-step instructions.

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