This miso soup with leeks and carrots is hearty and delicious. The perfect soup recipe for a warm and cozy lunch or dinner. If you love Japanese cuisine, make this creamy, buttery, decadent Vegetarian Japanese Curry next! Complete your meal with one of our Japanese desserts.
To make this recipe, you will need :
- Soba noodles
- Miso bouillon cubes
- Large carrot
- Medium leek
- Small red onion
- Sesame seeds
- Kombu seaweed
- Nori seaweed
Happy New Year, friends! We just got back from Amiens where we rang in the new year with a dear group of old friends. Spending New Year’s Eve with this group of friends in Amiens is our new year’s tradition. We don’t see these friends very often – usually twice per year – but we love getting together to catch up and start the new year off right as a group. You know that warm and cozy feeling you get when you see friends you don’t see often but each time you get together it’s like no time has passed at all? That is the best feeling. Do you have similar friends?
As a year finishes and a new one begins, I love to reflect on everything that has happened over the past year. Time goes by so quickly and Hugo and I make it a goal to appreciate each day, each moment and each new experience. Every day is a new opportunity for beautiful experiences and happiness!
Spending NYE with a group of friends we only see a couple of times per year, reminds me of how quickly time flies by. Three years ago, we didn’t have any babies in our group. Now there are 2 and soon there will be 5 as two of our friends are expecting – one is expecting twins!
Time keeps moving on and with it’s consistent march come great gifts – new blessings and new discoveries. We are grateful for so many reasons, including this amazing group of friends. What are you grateful for this year?
As a new year begins, we begin thinking about what we’d like to experience this year, what we’d like to keep doing and what we hope to change. Many people are hoping to make healthier, homecooked food. This miso soup with leeks and carrots is a great start. We’ve topped this soup with organic sesame seeds, kombu seaweed and Nori seaweed for added taste and an additional vitamin boost.
This miso soup is warm, comforting, bursting with flavor and filled to the brim with vitamin rich carrots, leeks and soba noodles. This is a simple vegan version – just miso broth and veggies but you could spice it up with some grilled chicken or salmon too. Sometimes, we add a poached egg on top which is also yummy.
This miso soup with leeks and carrots is perfect as a healthy vegan lunch or as a dinner recipe. You could even serve smaller portions as an appetizer.
If you are looking for other tasty vegan recipes, check out our pumpkin mushroom bowls + brown rice and spaghetti squash noodles + arugula pesto.
We will be looking over the past year and putting together a best of post with some of our favorite recipes from 2016 so keep an eye out for that one coming very soon! What are your New Year’s resolutions this year? What are you grateful for as we head into 2017?
More Soup Recipes
- Erwtensoep (Dutch Split Pea Soup)
- Chestnut Veloute
- Vegetarian French Onion Soup
- Carrot Coconut Curry Soup
- Leek Sweet Potato Soup
- French Pumpkin Soup
- Korean Oxtail Soup
Miso Soup with Leeks and Carrots
Enjoy this simple soup recipe! Let us know if you make it in the comments below.
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Miso soup with leeks and carrots
- Total Time: 50 mins
- Yield: For 2 people 1x
Description
Learn to make this vitamin packed + delicious miso soup with leeks + carrots.
Ingredients
- Soba noodles (150 g)
- 2 miso bouillon cubes (20 g)
- 1 large carrot
- 1 medium leek
- 1 small red onion
- 2 tsp sesame seeds
- 1 liter of water
- 1 leaf of Kombu seaweed
- 6 x 1 inch squares of Nori seaweed
Instructions
- Pour the water into a large pot.
- Add the Kombu leaf.
- Cut the carrot into 6 pieces (3 per person).
- Cut the leek into 4 pieces (2 per person).
- Cut the onion in two.
- Add the carrot, leek and onion to the water.
- Heat on high heat.
- When it starts to boil, add the 2 miso cubes to the soup.
- Lower heat to medium.
- Cook for 30 minutes.
- Once the soup has been cooking for 20 minutes, start preparing the soba noodles.
- Fill another large pot with water and bring to a boil.
- When the water begins to boil, pour the soba noodles into the pot.
- Cook on high heat for 6- 8 minutes (check your package for exact cooking time).
- Strain noodles using a colander.
- Remove soup from heat and remove the Kombu leaf from the soup.
- To prepare each bowl of soup, divide the noodles in 2 parts and line each soup bowl.
- Pour the soup over the noodles.
- Garnish each bowl of soup with 3 cubes of Nori seaweed and a teaspoon of sesame seeds.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 40 mins
- Category: Soup – healthy lunch or dinner
- Cuisine: Japanese
Kimmythevegan says
What a wonderful, warming soup! And it sounds like you had a lovely New Year celebration. Ours was quiet, spent with a good friend. We tend to spend things more quietly now.
One of the things I am thankful for from 2016 is that you found us over at Healthy Vegan Fridays =) Thank you so much for your contributions.
Thank you for sharing – I’m pinning & sharing! I hope you have a great week =)
Mary Ellen @ VNutrition says
Miso soup is a favorite of mine! Love how you added the soba noodles. 🙂
Friends that you don’t see often but can jump back into things like no time has passed are the best! We have a few couples like that and always have a great time hanging out with them.
Happy New Year!
Jacqueline Meldrum says
What a gorgeous looking soup! Thanks for submitting this to Meat Free Mondays the roundup is now live and you’ve been featured. Now to do a bit of social promotion for you.
A Hedgehog in the Kitchen says
Thanks so much! We are so excited to be featured in your wonderful round-up!
Danielle says
Miso soup is delicious and I love the addition of the soba noodles here. What a great winter soup.
A Hedgehog in the Kitchen says
Hi Danielle! Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving a comment. We hope you love the soup. It is one of our absolute favorite Winter soups!