Here’s something easy and healthy for after Christmas: steamed broccoli, light miso and walnuts, an instant umami taste sensation.
Steamed broccoli with walnut miso, plus soba noodles
Such an easy healthy recipe.
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 300 g shelled walnuts
- 1 tbsp light miso paste, available from most Asian shops
- 500 g broccoli or sprouting broccoli
- A few drops pumpkin seed oil
Optional, to make it more of a meal:
- 250g 250g buckwheat soba noodles, I like to use pink ones, coloured by plum extract, to contrast with the green of the broccoli
- 3 chopped spring onions
Instructions
- Mix the walnuts and the miso in the food processor until well blended. Sprinkle over the warm broccoli.
- Wash the broccoli. Steam in salted water for 15 minutes or until just tender. Put in a bowl, sprinkling a few drops of good cold pressed oil such as pumpkin seed oil, dark and a rich olive colour, a present from one of my guests from Germany Austria.
- If you want a more substantial meal, boil some soba noodles briefly in salted water until al dente, or whatever the Japanese expression is for that, roughly drain (a little water melts the miso into the dish) and place the broccoli, then the miso mix, then the spring onions, on top.
Pumpkin seed oil being a specialty of Styria, do you think it could have been a present from your guests from Austria? 🙂
Oops. Thanks though, it's lovely. x
I know it's only 10 in the morning, but that has made me feel soooo hungry I think I'll have an early munch (lunch)…
Sounds good, especially after all the Christmas excess! Great for the detox.