Soba noodles in broth with sweet potato, cabbage and spinach

[bigmike&nan]

My wife found this in the online section of the New York Times and we love it. It's not my recipe but darn it you really should try making this. You could use a whole wheat spagetti or your own home made noodles. So good, so easy, so healthy, so tasty... Wait BIG MIKE says Mikey Likes It... LOL

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/health/nutrition/26recipehealth.html?_r=2

Mis en place:

1 can chicken stock
3 cans water
1 Tbls miso paste

1/2 sweet potato, peeled, cut in half and sliced thin
2 cups cabbage
1 cup mushrooms, sliced
about a dime's diameter udon noodles (or substitute linguine or whole wheat spaghetti)
3 scallions chopped
2-3 cups fresh spinach leaves washed

Preparation:

Add chicken stock, water and miso paste to a large soup pot, heat on high, add sweet potatoes and wait until the pot is simmering, let cook five minutes. Now add cabbage, mushrooms and the pasta to the pot and cook about 8 minutes (less for the soba noodles) add scallions and spinach and cook about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and let rest about 5 minutes. Serve it up so each bowl gets a bit of everything. It's very tasty.

 

[flowerchild59]

That is the type of recipe that I love to cook. I may try to make it with homemade soba (buckwheat) noodles.

 

[kla37]

Looks very good! Definitely will try it. I LOVE making soups. Thanks for sharing!

 

[alabama49]

What is miso paste???

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

a paste made from fermented soybeans & sometimes other grains as well. very good for you & your digestive system. If you haven't had it before start with the mellow white.

 

[alabama49]

OK thanks Katy! I will get some & try it although I thought I heard that soy products weren't so good for you?
Edited to add--what else do you use this paste for?

 

[bigmike&nan]

Ever had miso soup in a japanese restaurant.
They simply mix some miso paste into water or their own house made stock, add cubes of tofu and some chiffonades of seaweed and a handful of chopped scallion. Very satisfying - and no, SOYBEAN products are a great source of protein.

If you are making a soup it's a great flavor and nutrition enhancer. Also good for making a garnish for gomae, which is a spinach salad of sorts. Really very awesome. I'll post a recipe in a few days. Here's a video of an old japanese lady making spinach gomae - exatcly what kind of dressing you make is up to you. This gomae really gives you a very pleasant rush - it is so healthy.

This second video you make the spinach the same way in the first video but then you very carefully cut up red and yellow bell pepper and cooked chicken breast into thin strips and roll it inside the spinach (another addition worhty of searching out would be enoki mushrooms). It's really beautiful - a little bamboo rolling mat is really helpful making this but you use a piece of doubled over aluminum foil (shiny side out) into an improvised rolling mat... This too looks so healthy as pretty.

 

[Ga Chicken Mom]

My mouth is watering. Really miss the great Japanese noodle shops.