Buckwheat and Rice Flour Dumpling Vegetable Soup
This is a delicious chunky miso soup with seasonal vegetables and dumplings made of rice flour and buckwheat flour. Enjoy this well-balanced hearty soup!
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Rice flour alone can make delicious dumplings. When mixed with finely grated Chinese yams or tofu, they will be more moist and fluffy.
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Miso, Japanese mushrooms, and dashi powder can be purchased online or at Asian grocery stores.
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All rice flour is naturally gluten-free. Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.
4-6 servings
Ingredients
For the dumplings
| ¼ cup (40g) | rice flour |
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| ⅓ cup (40g) | buckwheat flour |
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| 3-3½ tablespoons (40-50ml) | water |
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For the soup
| ¼ cup (5g) | kikurage dried wood ear mushrooms |
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| 1 cup (100g) | enoki mushrooms |
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| 1 cup (80g) | shiitake mushrooms |
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| 1 (100g) | Japanese eggplant (about 1 cup) |
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| 1 (80g) | carrot (about ½ cup) |
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| 2½-3⅓ cups (600-800ml) | water |
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| 1 teaspoon (4g) | dashi powder |
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| 1½ tablespoons (30g) | miso |
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Directions
For the dumplings
In a bowl, combine rice flour, buckwheat flour, and water. Knead until the dough achieves the firmness of an earlobe.
Form small bite size balls, about 1 inch (2-3cm) in diameter. Set aside.
For the soup
Soak the dried mushrooms in water to rehydrate. Cut all the ingredients into 1 inch (2-3 cm) pieces.
In a pot over medium high heat, combine water, mushrooms, eggplants, carrots, and dashi powder. Bring to a boil then simmer.
When cooked thoroughly, add dumplings. Continue to simmer until the dumplings start to float.
Add miso to the soup. Serve.
- This recipe uses US customary units. Measurement equivalents include: 1 teaspoon = 5ml, 1 tablespoon = 15ml, and 1 US cup = 237ml or 8fl oz. (1 metric cup = 250ml or 8.5fl oz.)
- The cooking time using microwave oven in this recipe is based on 1,000W in the US.
- The temperature and baking time may be different depending on the oven used. Please adjust accordingly.
- All rice flour is naturally gluten-free. Make this dish completely gluten-free by using gluten-free substitutes for other ingredients as needed.