Raquel Pelzel coats vegetables in a white miso mixture before roasting in a Dutch oven to make this hearty, robust, complex, vegan soup. Pastry chef Paola Velez mixes shiro miso with green sofrito ...

White miso is also known as shiro miso, which in Japanese translates to "soup miso." It's fermented for a much shorter period, sometimes as little as a week, and is milder, sweeter and less salty ...

White miso, also known as shiro miso, is a paste made from fermented soy beans and rice or barley. It is typically fermented for at least six months and has a milder, sweeter flavor than red miso.

In the end, like all home cooking, the choice is yours: White, or shiro, miso is made with a higher proportion of rice, which lends a milder, sweeter flavor, whereas red, or aka, miso is made with ...