Recipe

Miso Soup with Broccoli and Wakame

Accompanying article: How I Cured Cancer with Diet

Five superior cancer-combating foods are miso, mushrooms, seaweed, and vegetables from the onion and cabbage families. This comforting soup uses all of these foods.

Serves 4

2 broccoli spears, stems peeled and both stems and tops chopped
1 small onion, diced
2 fresh or rehydrated shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 tablespoon wakame seaweed flakes (or one 6-inch strip wakame*)
1 tablespoon finely grated ginger
3 tablespoons light-colored miso or to taste
1 scallion, thinly sliced

Place the broccoli, onion, mushrooms and wakame along with 4 cups water in a 2-quart saucepan and place over high heat. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender.

Meanwhile, press the grated ginger between your fingertips to extract 1 teaspoon of ginger juice and add it to the soup. Remove 1/4 cup stock from the pot and place in a small bowl. Add the miso and, using a fork, dissolve the miso. Add the miso to the soup. Simmer for 1 minute. Garnish with the scallion and serve.

* If using a wakame strip, soak it in water for a few minutes until it softens. Cut out and discard the tough, fibrous central stipe (stem). Slice the remaining frond into thin ribbons.

May you be well nourished,

Rebecca Wood