Miso Coconut Curry Soup Creamy Zen Tropical Masterpiece Recipes

COCONUT-MISO MUSHROOM SOUP

Steps:

• Cook mushrooms and 1 teaspoon salt in a large, dry saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until mushrooms collapse, darken slightly, and most of moisture cooks out, 12 to 15 minutes.
• Add oil and chopped scallions; cook until scallions are tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in ginger, garlic, and miso and cook just until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer 5 minutes.
• Reserve 2 tablespoons coconut milk, then add the rest to a blender with mushroom mixture (work in two batches, if needed). Purée until very smooth, about 2 minutes, removing blender cap and covering hole with a folded kitchen towel to allow steam to escape.
• Return mixture to saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. If a thinner soup is desired, stir in more broth, a little at a time. Season with salt and white pepper and serve, drizzled with remaining coconut milk and topped with fried mushrooms and scallion tops.

COCONUT-MISO SALMON CURRY

Steps:

• In a large pot, heat 2 tablespoons oil over medium. Add onion, ginger and garlic and season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add miso and cook, stirring frequently, until miso is lightly caramelized, about 2 minutes.
• Add coconut milk and 3 cups water and bring to a boil over high heat. Cook until liquid is slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Stir in salmon, reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer gently until just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Turn off heat and stir in spinach and lime juice.
• Divide rice among bowls. Top with salmon curry, basil and cilantro. Serve with lime wedges for squeezing on top.

MISO COCONUT CURRY SOUP - CREAMY ZEN TROPICAL MASTERPIECE

Steps:

• Boil 8 Cups Water with 2 tbs Pink Himalayan Sea Salt on high heat. Use a nice stainless steel soup pot that has a good lid with a little hole in it. (preferably see through) You will need at least 3-4 inches of room on top, so a deep pot is ok.
• When it boils, turn the heat off (let it go below the bubbling point).
• Just as the bubbles settle down add 3 teaspoons Bonito Fish Powder soup stock.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip.
• Add 1 bunch of thinly sliced fresh Scallion Green Onions.
• This is your basic stock.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip.
• Turn back on heat and slowly raise heat just below medium *never let soup bubble from this point on. Watch it closely, you can burn this soup if you are not slow and easy. Do not go above medium heat from this point forward.
• Add 3-4 tablespoons of mellow white miso paste. (organic) Slowly mash the miso into the soup with a large ladle and wooden spoon. Ease it into the hot soup, you cream it just under the soup near the surface. Now you have your basic creamy miso soup.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip. you'll already love it.
• Keep the heat below the bubbling point, this soup is a delicate one.
• Add 2 cans of Coconut Milk, shake them vigorously before you open them.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip. yep, that was a mouthgasm you just had.
• Add 1 large tablespoons of Red Panang Curry Paste. Slowly mash the curry paste into the water in a large ladle ease it into the hot soup, you cream it just under the soup near the surface.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip. I know! how could it get any better?!?!
• *never let soup bubble at this point. Low or just below medium heat*.
• Now throw in two little thai red hot peppers, whole, stem and all, do not cut them, so that they barely spice the soup.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip. this is like a zen meditation of patience, it will pay off!
• Add in the fresh finely grated galangal root (fine grate about an inch).
• Add the 8 small kaffir limes leaves (whole).
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip. you taste the soup evolve at each step.
• Now we will prep the lemon grass stalk. Chop off the white root looking bottom part about an inch going up. Only chop off the bottom part, leave some white. Then chop it again at the top green part where it begins to split the whole usable part should be about 4 inches long from the bottom going upwards. Then unwrap a layer or two until you have only the middle part. Smash it with a coffee cup or the flat part of the knife. Finely chop it a few times until it is thinly minced.
• Add in the prepped minced lemongrass stalk to the soup.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip. do you love me yet? :-).
• Then add the fresh shiitake mushrooms. Cut them into little strips. (no stems, only the flat caps).
• Add the can of straw mushrooms. Don't cut these, put them in whole. (drain the water from the can) Use fresh straw mushrooms if you can find them. Wait until the mushrooms fuse totally into the soup.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip.
• Add in 1 teaspoon coarse brown sugar.
• Add in 1/2 of a lime juiced (squeeze it in the soup) don't put the whole lime in, just its juice.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip. you taste that? it's tropical love!
• Then add the thick long udon noodles, freshly frozen. You can put the whole frozen udon square into the soup. I use one or two squares of the frozen 5 packs.
• Stir gently, cover and wait 2-3 minutes, taste a sip.
• Lightly poach some quail eggs, you can find them in an asian market. They are hard to crack so you must be carful or you will break the yellow part and it won't look as good. I use a very sharp chef knife and give them a little chop on the side near the fattest part. Use an egg poacher the kind that has little non-stick bowls that float above hot water. Put a tiny dab of butter in each bowl and then the egg on top once the butter is melted. Once again use low to medium heat, quail eggs can be done in about 30 seconds, if you like the sunny look.
• You are now ready to serve your soup.
• Serve with fresh (de-stemmed) cilantro leaves on top, and gently place a few lightly poached quail eggs on top. I like them barely poached, sunny and a bit runny.
• Enjoy!

ASIAN TSUNAMI FUSION SOUP

Steps:

• Cut chicken up into large pieces (remove skin & fat and discard the liver, gizzard, heart, neck) and put into a large pot with stock; bring to a boil and then a low simmer for about 30+ minutes (make sure chicken is cook thoroughly); discard scum on top
• Split shrimp slightly lengthwise; place in a bowl with baking soda & a little water and let sit for 10 minutes; place shrimp in a pot of boiling water and cook for about 30 seconds to 1 minute; when shrimp turns pink remove (do not overcook);set aside
• Place rice noodles in a pot of boiling water and cook for 2 minutes, drain; set aside; (If using small individual packages of rice noodles cook just before serving and place in large individual bowls)
• Remove chicken pieces and allow to cool; then remove the meat from the bone and cut up into bite size pieces; set aside
• Run stock through a sieve and retain approximately 4 1/2 cups
• Add to stock a large pot and then curry paste, coconut milk, lemon, ginger, cornstarch & water slurry, stir and bring to a boil; then lower heat to a simmer
• Add chicken pieces into pot and simmer 3 minutes
• Add red/green chopped peppers and stir a few times, cook 1 minute
• In big individual bowls add rice noodles, chicken and stock; then on top and around the sides add some shrimps, bean sprouts, egg quarters, cashews, red/green peppers and 6 or more basil leaves
• On individual side plates, have extra lemon wedges, bean sprouts, and basil leaves on stems
• Get out your digital camera and take a photo... then enjoy!
• Notes:
• 1)This soup is similar to Soto Ayam (Chicken Soup from Malaysia) and is typical of many soups found at hawker stalls/stands on the streets in southeast Asia; This recipe uses a commercial brand curry gravy; If the brands noted above are not available, substitute curry powder and spices to taste; For ideas on spices and amounts do a search on the Internet "Malaysia Singapore Curry Recipes"
• 2)This soup is medium hot using the curry paste brands, so if desired use less curry paste to taste

CHICKEN CURRY SOUP WITH COCONUT AND LIME

Steps:

• Bring chicken broth, coconut milk, curry powder and chili to a simmer in a heavy medium saucepan over medium heat.
• Add chicken and simmer until chicken is just cooked through, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes.
• Mix in lime juice.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Divide rice between 4 bowls.
• Ladle soup over rice.
• Sprinkle with green onions and cilantro.
• Pass lime wedges separately.
• Serve.