Miso

With a miso-boosted cheese sauce and no shortage of potato chips.

Crisp pecans in a sticky mochi cake makes for a dreamy dessert. A dab of miso gives it intriguing depth.

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.

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.

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.

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.