Medicinal Mushrooms and Deep Roots Soup
If you’re not already eating edible medicinal mushrooms, this recipe for Medicinal Mushrooms and Deep Roots Soup would be a good idea to start. Especially, if your immune system is down or you’re struggling with blood sugar imbalances, high blood pressure, and/or cancer.
There’s a wealth of scientific data linking mushrooms to a host of benefits for good health:
- Shitake Mushrooms contain a compound called lentinan. In clinical studies patients using shitake mushrooms have shown higher survival rates and lower recurrence of cancer.[1]
- Maitake Mushrooms have anticancer, antiviral, and immune-system enhancing effects and may also help control both high blood pressure and blood sugar levels.[2]
I’m using both of these medicinal mushrooms in this delicious and health supportive soup.
Use the recipe below to start cooking up better health!
This recipe was contributed by Andrea Beaman.
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Medicinal Mushrooms and Deep Roots Soup
Ingredients
- 7-8 dried shitake mushrooms soaked in 2 cups water
- 1/2 cup dried maitake mushrooms soaked in 2 cups water
- 3 inches alaria seaweed soaked and chopped
- 1/4 cup burdock root thin diagonals
- 1/2 cup daikon root half moons
- 1 tbsp Ginger minced
- 6 oz tofu cubed or other protein
- 1/4 cup enoki mushrooms
- 1-2 leaves bok choy chopped
- 4 tbsp sweet white miso
- 2-3 Scallions chopped
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Instructions
- Strain the water from the mushrooms and add additional water to get 4 cups total liquid. Put the liquid into a soup pot and turn the heat high.
- Chop the shitake and maitake mushrooms and add to the pot, with alaria and burdock root, and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to simmer for 5-7 minutes.
- Add daikon root, ginger and tofu, and cook 2-3 minutes. Add enoki mushrooms and bok choy.
- Put miso paste into a bowl and add hot liquid from the soup to liquefy the miso. Add the miso to the soup and shut off the heat.
- Let sit 2-3 minutes. Garnish with minced scallions.
Oh wow, what a fun and delicious recipe, and healthful!
I was pleasantly surprised to find this wonderful website with this awesome soup recipe. I grew up in Japan and was raised on this sort of healthy food. When moved to U.S. we started on junk food . Now at 65, I am fit and trim eating lots of root veggies and juicing for 35 years.