No-Frills Miso Dressing

I double this recipe for a week's worth of lunch salads during normal times. Now we're in quarantine, it's gentle flavors have enhanced vegetables, full-on stir fry's, tuna/egg salad, and toast. My modifications are an extra 1/2 tsp miso, halve the honey, and finely chopped ginger when we have it.

Lol Joy we totally went to the Iowa Young Writer's Workshop together so long ago. I was looking up salad dressing recipes and bumped into your name. Hope all's well and that this dressing is as badass as it looks! Hit me up if you're ever in W. MA!!!!

This is my new go-to dressing. An easy weeknight dinner salad with a store bought rotisserie bird. I doctor mine up with Spicy Chili Crisp. Scrumptious!

Great recipe! I used it on salad and on steamed broccoli.

So very, very good!!

When my daughter became a vegetarian, I began using miso to make a vegetarian Caesar Salad dressing. It gave the dressing the umami that usually comes from the anchovies and/or Worcestershire sauce. (Luckily, she still eats cheese, so the parmesan helps, too.) Miso was a great stand in for the missing anchovies, but I have yet to make a Miso Caesar dressing that doesn't curdle or separate a bit. Of course, once it's tossed with the salad, that part (which niggles at the perfectionist in me) doesn't seem to matter to the taste buds at all. Now that I read this recipe, and all the wonderful comments for variations and various uses, I think I'll be incorporating Miso in my dressing for more than just my daughter's special dressing.

This is such a great salad dressing. Thank you so much for posting your recipe.

My new favorite use of miso is simply mixing the miso with a little water then tossing cubed turnips and sweet potatoes and roasting in the oven at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes. This is a wonderful side dish or can even be thrown in a salad to add substance. Enjoy!

Looks like a great all-purpose seasoning, to have conveniently available. I'd feel safe, keeping this (basic) recipe for way longer than one week, in the refrigerator.

having just found myself with an over abundance of of both white miso and rice vinegar was wondering if you had any suggestions???

I bet this would be dreamy on roasted beets or asparagus even

absolutely Yummeeeeeee !!!!

Has anyone tried this on roasted beets?

I'm going to try this (I finally found miso paste (!) over roasted broccoli! Thanks!

miso makes a wonderful brushed on or hands on coating for roasting chicken or any meats....wonderous condiment for jazzing the otherwise dull mayo. Use your instincts, as with any type of cooking...that is how recipes came into our lives....Sel