White Miso 1KG by HIKARI

It’s mild and good flavour miso. I usually boil some vegetables in fish stock then put this miso paste. Serve with chopped spring onion.

Tasty miso, excellent seller.

Really good taste well packed

I use miso regularly as a flavour enhancer for a variety of savoury plant-based dishes* including salad dressings, sauces, soups and more. As such it works for me to buy a larger amount. This miso is thick and smooth in consistency, on the salty side but not excessively so. Although it is a white miso, it is fairly robust and versatile and less delicate in flavour than the Clearspring for example. I transferred the contents from the bag to a clip-lok lidded container in the fridge and so far it is maintaining freshness and will hopefully do so until used up. *NB I am raw and plant-based so have neither heated this product nor used in in cooked dishes.

This is not miso paste in the traditional sense. It is a paste, made from soya beans but it has not been fermented properly. Fermentation does not involve adding yeast, Koji spores (a bacteria grown on rice) are used and fermentation can be anywhere from 6 months to a year and more. Alcohol is not required as a preservative. This 'miso' lacks flavour. It also floats on top of the stock or water that you add it to as you will see in the photo. Once heated you will see a lot of scum floating on the surface. This tells me the scum wasn't removed at the very early cooking stage of the beans before what would be the fermenting stage. But they've used yeast so... The instructions say 72g paste to 720ml water or stock. I had to add four times as much to get something close to miso flavour. Don't waste your money. I wanted to try it out but I will not buy this again.

Eccellente

Not so great