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This Daikon Miso Soup is a hearty and healthy Japanese soup. The daikons are tender, and the dashi (soup stock) has an umami flavor that makes it rich in taste. If you love daikon and soup, this recipe is for you!

Miso soup is an everyday dish for Japanese home cooking and comprises various ingredients such as vegetables, fish, or tofu.

This is one of my favorite miso soups as daikon and aburaage (deep-fried tofu) add sweetness to the soup, and it's absolutely amazing!

This recipe is for you if:

You love Japanese daikon.
You want to make a daikon soup.
You are looking for a daikon miso soup recipe.

If you haven't cooked daikon before, don't worry; this is super easy miso soup. Let me show you how to make it!

About This Recipe

Japanese daikon radish recipe
Authentic miso soup
Use niboshi for soup stock (dashi)

Japanese Daikon Radish

If you are unfamiliar with Daikon or first time cooking Daikon, check my related post, "Japanese Daikon Radish Recipes," and learn more about Daikon. In the post, I explain what daikon tastes like, how to cook it, how to choose a good one, how to store it, etc.

Daikon's taste varies depending on which part you use—the upper part is sweet, and the lower part is peppery. For miso soup, I recommend the upper part.

📋 Ingredients

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

Daikon: We only use 2 cm of daikon, but I highly recommend buying it if you can find the whole daikon at a store. Use the upper part, not the lower part. Sweet daikon makes this miso soup so tasty.
Daikon Leaves: Use any green vegetable you like if daikon doesn't come with daikon leaves.
Aburaage: It's deep-fried thin tofu. It has a firm and chewy texture. It becomes juicy in the soup as it soaks up the soup. If it's hard to find it at a store, use tofu instead.
Miso Paste: See below.
Niboshi (dashi): Niboshi or iriko are dried baby sardines and are used for making dashi (soup stock) in Japanese cooking. Niboshi dashi brings a rich flavor to miso soup. Before cooking, I recommend taking off the head and guts to exclude fishy smell or bitterness. (Please see niboshi dashi for more details) If this is too much work for you, you can substitute it with dashi powder (1 tsp).

Pick the Genuine Miso Paste

Miso is flavorful, savory, and salty fermented soybean paste, an essential seasoning for Japanese cooking. It is made from soybeans, koji, and salt. Making delicious miso with umami and sweetness will take over a year.

However, mass-produced miso is added with additives such as MSG to add umami flavor and alcohol to stop fermentation, etc., to ship quickly and control the quality. This type of miso is not natural. Important fungi of miso die and become less nutritious.

So, I highly recommend using genuine miso paste. When you go to a grocery store, please check the ingredients on the label and pick the one made from only three ingredients: soybeans, koji, and salt.

🔪Instructions

All right, I will show you the flow of this recipe. Please see the recipe card below for more detailed instructions.

Preparing ingredients might take some time, but the steps are so easy after that.

Prepare ingredients (cut vegetables and aburaage, and remove head and gut of niboshi)
Bring to a boil
Simmer and Add daikon leaves
Add miso (turn off the heat and add miso)

See Niboshi dashi for how to prepare niboshi.

Aburaage is deep-fried tofu, and it’s greasy on the surface. So, if you want to remove it, boil it in boiling water for a couple of minutes or rinse it with warm tap water. (I rinse it with warm water almost always, but boiling is the proper way to do it.)

Please note that always turn off before adding miso. We don't want to over-boil and lose the aroma of miso and nutrients.

Cook Daikon 5 Recipes

If you are looking for daikon recipes, watch this video and learn how to cook daikon in 5 different ways.

Winter is the delicious season for Daikon. Buy one whole and try some new recipes! Please check out this article, "Japanese Daikon Radish Recipes", to get more info.

What to Serve with Miso Soup

Are you not sure what to serve with daikon miso soup? Here are some ideas:

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📖 Recipe

Japanese Daikon Miso Soup (Niboshi Dashi)

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Prep: 5

Cook: 7

Total: 12

Servings: 4 servings

Author: JURI

Equipment

Saucepan 18cm/7 inches
Miso measuring whisk

Ingredients

Instructions

Prepare ingredients: Peel daikon and slice it into bite-size, chop daikon leaves, cut aburaage into thin sticks, and remove the head and guts of niboshi.
Bring to a boil: Put daikon, aburaage, niboshi, and water in a pot, and bring to a boil on medium heat.
Simmer: Lower the heat and cook for 5 to 7 minutes until the daikon becomes tender.
Add daikon leaves: Add daikon leaves and cook for one more minute.
Add miso: Turn off the heat, add miso, and stir gently until it dissolves.

Notes

Storage: 2 days in the fridge.
Substitute: You can substitute niboshi with dashi powder (1 tsp). If you are vegan/vegetarian, you can substitute niboshi with vegan dashi (shiitake mushroom and kombu). If the daikon's leaves are cut off, you can use any green vegetables you like.
If you don't like the excess oil on the aburaage, rinsing it off with hot water will help to remove it.
If the taste of the soup is light to you, please add more miso.
When you warm the soup up, do not over-boil miso soup because it loses nutrients and the aroma of miso.
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Nutrition

Course: Soup

Cuisine: Japanese

Keyword: Daikon Miso Soup

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