Marukome, Instant Miso Soup, 12 Sachets
A proper bowl of miso soup, just add hot water.
Twelve single-serve sachets of white miso soup with wakame, made by Marukome, Japan's largest miso producer, brewing in Nagano since 1854. Each sachet carries real miso paste rather than a dried powder, so the bowl tastes closer to the made-from-scratch version than most instant soups. Pour on hot water, stir, done in under a minute.
Prefer it with tofu? Try the instant miso soup with tofu.
Why Operators Choose This
- Real miso paste: a paste sachet, not a powder, so the flavour is closer to scratch-made.
- Under a minute: hot water and a stir is all it takes, ideal for staff meals and quick service.
- Single-serve: twelve portioned sachets, no waste and no batch to hold.
- Trusted maker: Marukome has brewed miso in Nagano since 1854.
How to Use
- Classic: empty a sachet into a bowl, add around 160ml hot water and stir.
- Build on it: drop in tofu, spring onion or extra wakame to make it more of a meal.
- Staff and counter: a fast, warming option for back-of-house or grab-and-go.
- Cooking base: use a sachet as a quick seasoned stock for noodles or greens.
Miso soup (味噌汁, miso shiru) is the everyday soup of Japan, miso paste loosened into dashi, and it has been part of the diet since miso entered the samurai kitchen as soup by the twelfth century. These sachets use a white (shiro) miso, the mild, slightly sweet style, with wakame seaweed for body. It is a convenience version of a simple dish, but a good one, because the miso is real paste from a serious producer rather than a flavouring.
Learn more: How to make miso soup
What does instant miso soup taste like?
Mild, savoury and gently sweet, with the soft wakame adding a clean marine note. Because it is built on white miso and real paste, it reads rounder and less salty than a typical powdered instant soup, closer to a simple home-made bowl. It is light rather than rich, the sort of thing served alongside a meal rather than as the centre of it. Add tofu or spring onion and it gains body quickly.
| Type | Instant miso soup 味噌汁 (white miso with wakame) |
| Brand | Marukome (brewing since 1854) |
| Origin | Japan |
| Pack | 12 single-serve sachets |
| Best Used As | Fast miso soup for staff, counter or home |
| Storage | Cool and dry; reseal the box |
How do you make instant miso soup?
Empty one sachet into a bowl or mug, add roughly 160ml of hot, just-off-the-boil water, and stir until the paste dissolves. That is it. Very hot water helps the miso loosen, but a full rolling boil is not needed. To turn it into more of a meal, stir in silken tofu, sliced spring onion, a little extra wakame or some cooked noodles.
Is instant miso soup as good as fresh?
It is a convenience version, so a freshly made bowl with your own dashi will always have more depth. That said, because these sachets use real miso paste from a major producer rather than a dried powder, they land much closer to the real thing than most instant soups. For a quick bowl at the pass, a staff lunch or home, they do the job well. When the soup is the dish, make it fresh with a good paste and dashi.
How should I store the sachets?
Keep the box somewhere cool and dry and reseal it after opening to keep the sachets fresh. Each sachet is individually sealed, so they keep well until the date on the pack. Once a sachet is made up, drink it while hot; it is not designed to be held or reheated repeatedly.
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