Miso

Blistered and roasted sweet potatoes are at their best glazed in a sticky-spicy sauce featuring maple syrup, chili paste, vinegar, soy sauce, and miso.

No funky, hard-to-pronounce ingredients in this versatile meat substitute, just lots of beets and chickpeas for texture and miso for a bit of umami.

Canned chickpeas and frozen broccoli keep this one-skillet dinner fast and thrifty, while cream cheese delivers on the creamy Alfredo front.

This easy recipe for miso ramen is perfect for dinner on the fly (or a quick lunch). It’s highly adaptable and can even be made using a microwave.

Chewy chocolate chip cookie lovers: Here’s another to love. Bolstered by brown butter, macadamia nuts, and miso, it’s got depth, balance, and personality.

This cozy, vegetarian, super umami dish proves that stews don’t always need to be simmered for hours on end to be complex, rich, and satisfying.

The secret to a dinner-worthy salad? A deeply savory cooked element, like miso-roasted tempeh and mushrooms. 

Inspired by French onion soup, this pasta is deeply savory, relying on umami-rich miso to deliver flavor fast.

This foolproof stovetop mac and cheese levels up with the inclusion of miso paste for a silky sauce that is bursting with umami-rich cheesiness.

This (almost) no-cook pasta is an ardent love letter to summer’s ripest tomatoes (and your box grater). 

Crispy-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside rice cakes play well as a pasta substitute in this comforting vegetarian one-skillet meal.

Ready to move on from bottled steak sauce? Great, because we are too with this 5-ingredient sauce that takes all of 10 minutes to make.

No broth? No problem. Miso creates a nearly-instant stock that brings richness and flavor to this creamy risotto.

All we are saying, is give turnips a chance.

Ribbons of protein-packed fresh yuba, or tofu skin, add a delightfully bouncy texture and nutty flavor to these quick, creamy vegan noodles.

This vegan cacio e pepe is everything we know and love about cheesy pasta (minus the cheese!): delicious, a little fancy, and deceptively simple to make.

Iceberg’s reign over the wedge salad stops here.

Mellow roasted garlic and sweet-salty miso paste bring big flavor to this buttery, easy-to-love mash.

A weeknight noodle dish that comes together in no time thanks to a power thruple of gochujang, miso, and tomato paste.

Level up your weeknight fish routine with a crispy, flavor-packed crust.