A Japanese meal on a weeknight!: Miso soup, salad with Miso Ginger dressing and Vegetable California rolls

DSC_1375 DSC_1372This Monday night at around 5 PM , my husband and I both look at each other and ask the unspoken question -“What are we doing for dinner?” I think for a few seconds and go ‘let’s make something really good’. The ‘really good’ from me was because I am trying to do vegan for a few weeks (not sure how long I will last). So I say ‘let’s make pooris and potato sabzi’! Poori sabzi is one of my favorite vegetarian meals.  Hubby says ‘wonderful, let’s do it’ and he volunteers to make the dough for the pooris while I go for a shower.  I come back in 15 minutes to see hubby trying to hide behind the children.  Finally he says sheepishly ‘Hon I missed the atta (whole wheat flour) from your grocery list. OK so that was the end of the poori sabzi craving 🙂

So it was after that, that I came up with the idea of going Japanese! In my house this is pretty common- to change directions radically especially when it comes to cooking! Hubby being an expert in sushi, I now volunteered him for making the sushi rolls. And I decided to attempt miso soup and miso ginger dressing. The family has always loved this wonderful miso ginger dressing at our local Japanese restaurant and I always wanted to try and make it at home. So today was going to be the day!  I washed and kept the sushi rice in a pot to cook while I googled for a good miso ginger dressing recipe.  I short listed three that I liked and then mixed them a little bit to try to mimic the taste of the dressing at our favorite local Japanese place.  I had to try mixing and changing proportions a little bit until I came pretty close to the benchmark I had set up for myself! Hmm…darned good I must say!

DSC_1372Next the miso soup was a breeze. Just Add spring onions and tofu to a pot of boiling water. And the mix in the miso along with some kombu pieces. I used sesame garlic tofu and so that additionally also added some flavor to the soup. It came out pretty darned good too.!

Hubby dear did a fabulous job as usual with his vegetable california rolls.  I have posted the detailed recipe for making sushi rolls here before.  What a team we make! So thus we delivered yet another successful and far from boring weeknight meal that all four of us loved!

So what are you waiting for? Turn your boring weeknight meal to a fabulous, fantastic one by making this meal!

Bringing this fabulous vegetarian Japanese meal to Throwback thursdays this week where my Chicken Curry from last week made it to the Features – Hurray 🙂 Also linking to Fiesta Friday this week.  Margy @ La Petite Casserole and Su @ Su’s Healthy Living are the co-hosts at FF this week.

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Vegetable California Rolls

Check my recipe that I posted for Spicy shrimp Sushi Rolls here for making sushi rolls. Skip the shrimp and only add cucumber and avocado pieces for a vegetarian version.

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20 Comments

  1. Yay…a miso ginger dressing recipe!!! The entire meal looks fabulous…but that dressing recipe really got me excited…yummy! Thanks for sharing, Indu!

    • thanks Nancy! Yes I too wanted to try make this dressing for so long! It came out really good. I had it with salad this entire week for lunch. So good!

    • thank you. Yeah I am not sure if I will be able to do strict vegan for too long. But want to try it since my RA symptoms and the side effect of medications is making my life miserable. Will see. At the very least I expect to be eating vegan and plant based for 80-90% of the time.

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