Make Mine Miso: 10 Recipes

To really get the gut health benefits from the fermentation of the miso, don’t boil it. Here, it’s mixed with warm roasted sweet potatoes for a silky mash with coconut milk and topped with crispy roasted broccoli and chickpeas — a complete vegan meal.

In conjunction with the traditional herby absinthe, this recipe adds in a homemade miso syrup for a salty kick with a hint of sweetness.

We’ve been obsessed lately with miso pasta dishes, especially when there’s butter involved because they are magic together. This recipe pairs miso and butter with earthy mushrooms that are a sponge for flavor. Add in cream, parmesan cheese and some fat bucatini for a satisfying dish you will crave.

If you like that salty-sweet thing, definitely add miso to your cookie dough. This recipe has surprisingly complex flavors like the miso, a blonde chocolate bar (caramelized white chocolate) and browned butter. The cookie tastes toasty, like a piece of toasted, buttery bread.

Once you add miso to roasted potatoes, you realize it’s been missing this whole time. Serve as a side dish like you would any roasted potato.

Like a one-two punch of umami, this recipe uses both miso and tahini for the most flavorful roasted chicken. A side of roasted bok choy, also in the same dressing, rounds out the meal. This would be epic with the miso roasted potatoes on this list.

Miso goes with sweets too since the fermentation process adds a nutty sweetness with the salt. With just a little coconut cream, maple syrup and dark chocolate, along with the miso, you can have these very gourmet truffles to savor, the perfect end to a meal.

Light and fluffy, mild milk bread gets a flavor boost from miso, butter and sesame seeds. When baked, it becomes a pull-apart loaf so good luck not pulling off a hunk whenever you walk by.

Miso, meet your new best friend caramel. You two are going to do rich things together, like flavor this silky ice cream.

Things that just make sense: adding scallions, mushrooms and a garlicky miso butter to focaccia bread for a chef’s kiss of a baked good.