As delicious as it is easy to prepare, this Noodle Miso Soup comes together in under 10 minutes and requires only 5 ingredients to make! 

As delicious as it is easy to prepare, this Noodle Miso Soup comes together in under 10 minutes and requires only 5 ingredients to make! 

You know, sometimes — especially at lunch time — I find myself cooking only for me and as such, I like to keep things real fast and simple. If you factor in the fact that I’m a big Asian food aficionado, I guess it comes as no surprise that Miso Soup is something that I really tend to go for.

Seriously, this is one of my ultimate “easy-speedy” options.  I don’t think that there’s another meal out there that you can make quite as quickly as this Miso Soup, save for instant Ramen, but these hardly qualify as a meal, if you know what I mean…

This soup, on the other hand, is packed with highly nutritional ingredients: miso paste, for starters, which is excellent for you, tofu, mushrooms, green onions, rice noodles… it’s all good stuff, really! It’s pretty much like Ramen, made healthy, as far as speed and convenience are concerned.

When it comes to taste, though, you get ten thousand times better with this gorgeous bowl of [almost] instant goodness.

The ingredients needed to make the miso soup

Agreed, it does require a little bit more prep time and “cooking” than just plain opening up a bag of dry fried noodles, dumping them into some boiling water and adding a little packet of salty greasy powder. But not that much, trust me. And the result is really worth putting in the little bit of extra effort.

Plus, even if you didn’t have the exact 5 ingredients that the recipe calls for, you could always improvise. This is one very forgiving soup. All that you really require is the miso paste. And even this is “personalizable”: I like to use white (aka shiro) miso, but any kind will do, really. So feel free to use your own favorite variety

For the rest, you can use basically whatever you want. Shredded carrots, mushrooms, frozen peas, edamame, tofu, shaved bokchoy, broccoli… You get the idea. Use whatever you have on hand!

Trust me, this IS one perfect quick meal for those days when you just don’t have time to cook, or plain don’t feel like it…

Cook the rice noodles in boiling water until tender

Enough talking, let’s get [not so] busy cooking… Start by bringing 3 cups of salted water to a boil, and then add the rice vermicelli and cook it until tender, about 1 minute.

Dilute the miso paste in hot water

While the water is coming to the boil and the noodles are cooking, dilute the miso paste in a quarter of a cup of hot water and prep the rest of your ingredients.

Add the mushrooms and wakame to the soup

As soon as the noodles are cooked to your liking — be careful not to overcook them: these things cook FAST — remove the pan from the heat source, add the wakame flakes and mushrooms and stir delicately.  

Be sure to slice your mushrooms real thin so the heat from the soup alone will be enough to cook them. 

Pour in the diluted miso

Now stir in the diluted miso…

Throw in the diced soft tofu cubes

…and finally, add the cubed tofu.

As delicious as it is easy to prepare, this Noodle Miso Soup comes together in under 10 minutes and requires only 5 ingredients to make! 

Transfer your soup to a large serving bowl and garnish it with a little bit of chopped green onion, a sprinkle of sesame seeds and a few drops of sesame oil, if desired. 

Instant Noodle Miso Soup by Sonia! The Healthy Foodie | Recipe on thehealthyfoodie.com

Only one thing left to do… DIG RIGHT IN! 

Instant Noodle Miso Soup by Sonia! The Healthy Foodie | Recipe on thehealthyfoodie.com

As delicious as it is easy to prepare, this Noodle Miso Soup comes together in under 10 minutes and requires only 5 ingredients to make! 
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Instant Noodle Miso Soup

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 2 minutes
An easy and delicious Noodle Miso Soup that comes together in under 10 minutes and requires only 5 ingredients to make! Yes please!
Servings: 1

Ingredients

To garnish

Instructions

  • Bring the 3 cups of water and salt to a boil.
  • Meanwhile, dilute the miso in the quarter cup of hot water and prep the rest of your ingredients.
  • Add the rice vermicelli to the boiling water and cook until tender, about 1 minute.
  • Remove from heat and add wakame flakes and mushrooms; stir delicately.
  • Stir in diluted miso and finally, add the cubed tofu.
  • Transfer to a large serving bowl and garnish with a little bit of chopped green onion, a sprinkle of sesame seeds and a few drops of sesame oil.
  • Serve without delay.

Notes

*You could also red or brown miso paste, if you preferred.

Nutrition

Calories: 282kcal, Carbohydrates: 53g, Protein: 9g, Fat: 4g, Saturated Fat: 1g, Sodium: 2026mg, Potassium: 224mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 3g, Calcium: 57mg, Iron: 2mg
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Asian
Author: Sonia! The Healthy Foodie

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*Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in January of 2012 and has since been completely revamped and updated with better pictures. A few minor modifications to the original recipe may also have been made.