Lazy And Inauthentic Miso Soup

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This takes about ten minutes to make, requires no work aside from dumping things into a pot of water, and is delicious. People on low sodium diets probably shouldn't even be in the same room with it.

Ingredients:

Three cups water
A few big chunks off a block of frozen spinach
A teaspoon instant dashi powder (dashinomoto)
A tablespoon or two akadashi or red miso
2 eggs
A lot of Tabasco sauce
Optional: Instant ramen noodles (not the seasoning packet!), garlic of some description

Bring water to boil. Add frozen spinach and dashinomoto. When spinach has softened, stir in miso until no lumps remain. Add the ramen and/or garlic and/or mushrooms if you're going to do that, letting the noodles cook completely before going on to the next step. Break the eggs into the pot and cook until yolks are hard (unless you'd rather speed it up a little and just break them).

Dump in the tabasco sauce. Serve by itself if you used the noodles, and otherwise with rice, if you were together enough to make some rice.

You can substitute white miso, but in that case the garlic is mandatory.

Comments

[ajnabieh]

Oooh, eggs. I haven't thought of adding eggs. (My miso-soup-at-lunchtime is usually "boil water in kettle, microwave frozen udon noodles and frozen peas until warm, stir boiled water into miso in bowl, add warm noodles, eat standing up in kitchen.")