Grounding Miso Soup

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes+
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 4 cups mushroom broth, bone broth, or water
  • 6 shiitake mushrooms, sliced
  • 2 carrots, sliced
  • 2 stalks of celery, sliced
  • 1 Tbsp ginger root, cut into matchsticks
  • 2 Tbsp avocado oil or ghee
  • 2 Tbsp tamari (or soy sauce)
  • ½ package of tempeh or 1 organic chicken breast, sliced into strips
  • 2 cups kale, finely sliced into ribbons
  • ¼ cup miso paste
  • ¼ cup sauerkraut or kimchi to garnish (optional)
  • 2 tsp wakame seaweed (optional)

Instructions

  1. Place broth/water, mushrooms, carrots, celery, and ginger into a medium pot, bring to a boil and reduce to simmer for 20 minutes.

  2. While soup is simmering, heat your skillet to medium heat, add oil, tamari and tempeh (or chicken). Cook tempeh until browned on each side, or if using chicken, cook chicken until cooked through. Set aside.

  3. Once carrots are fork tender, turn off heat and added shredded kale to the soup.
  4. Scoop out 1 cup of soup liquid, whisk with miso paste and then mix back into the pot of soup.
  5. Ladle soup into two bowls, add tempeh or chicken, wakame seaweed, and garnish with sauerkraut or kimchi.