Name: Miso Veggie Soup in a Jar
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1-2 teaspoon miso paste (I used brown rice miso here); ½ clove garlic (grated); 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger; ½ medium carrot (shredded or julienned); 1/2 cup napa cabbage (or other green, torn or shredded); 1/2 green onion (thinly sliced); 1/4 hot red pepper (thinly sliced); 1/8 red bell pepper (thinly sliced); 1/4 cup tofu (cubed); a wedge of lime; soy sauce (to taste (I use Braggs liquid aminos))

Servings

Prep Time5

Cook Time10

Total Time15

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This Miso Veggie Soup in a Jar is a quick, customizable, DIY instant soup you can prep in minutes. Layer finely shredded vegetables, tofu, miso paste, and aromatics into a jar, then just add boiling water for a fresh, flavorful vegan miso soup in about 10 minutes. Perfect for meal prep, packed lunches, or easy make-ahead meals during busy weeks.

Miso veggie soup with tofu in a glass jar on a grey background with chopsticks, lime slices, cilantro, and chili pepper to the side.

Miso hungry right now

Picture this: it's lunch time. You're hungry. You're in the mood for something quick, nourishing, and light. You reach into the fridge and pull out a veggie-loaded miso soup that's prepped and ready to go.

You boil the kettle and pour water over the top of shredded veggies, cubes of tofu, a scoop of miso paste, and some other aromatics. You wait for 10 short minutes. And then you dig into the most delectable miso veggie soup you've ever had.

It's just as fast and easy as those salt-laden styrofoam cup-a-soups, but this homemade instant soup has the benefit of being sooooo much more nutritious, and I tell ya, infinitely more delicious.

The trick here is that you've got to have all your veggies sliced or shredded so finely that they'll soften in the heat of boiling water. I use a julienne shredder for the carrots, and finely slice the napa cabbage, green onions, and snow peas.

If you're prepping one jar of DIY instant soup, you may as well prep a bunch of them for the week ahead. And while you're at it, the HNL community raves about these easy and delicious Chickpea Mason Jar Salads.

Overhead photo of shredded cabbage, carrots, green onion, snow peas, cubed tofu, sliced garlic, and miso paste on a blue plate.

Let's make Miso Veggie Soup jars together!

Friend, if you can stuff things into a jar, you can make this DIY instant soup recipe. Feel free to use the "jump to recipe" button to skip right down to the recipe card, or join me for a bit of a visual walkthrough first.

Step 1: fill your jars

Start by adding your miso paste and aromatics, then layer in the vegetables, and finish with the tofu on top. From here you can just throw your DIY instant soup jars into the fridge, where they'll be ready and waiting for you when you need them.

A glass jar filled with shredded veggies, with a kettle in the background.

Step 2: pour boiling water into the jars

When you're hungry, all you need to do is add boiling water.

Boiling water from a kettle being poured into a jar of shredded vegetables, miso, and tofu.

Step 3: wait 10 minutes

Put a lid on your jar, or cover it with foil. Now the hard part... wait 10 minutes.

A jar of DIY instant miso vegetable soup with a lid on.

Step 4: stir, and enjoy!

Give your miso veggie soup jar a good stir, and you're ready for lunch!

A jar of miso vegetable soup with tofu, with a pair of black chopsticks sticking out of it.

How easy was that?!

Miso veggie soup in a jar with cubes of tofu.

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