Eat Your Vegetables with this Delicious Miso Dip!

Convenience stores in Japan have an amazing offer of real food that’s actually delicious. It’s not at all the typical junk food found in other convenience stores around the world. You can even get fresh salads and vegetables sticks with an addicting miso dip. And since flying to Japan is not an option right now, here’s the Foodicles interpretation of the Convenience Store Miso Dip Recipe:

Taste Testing & Building Flavor

There are a countless number of miso dressing and miso dip recipes on the internet. However, it is difficult to find one that replicates the miso dip from Japan’s convenience stores. Those miso dips come with the pack of vegetable sticks commonly found at 7 Eleven and Lawson.

So through trial and error, taste testing, and flavor building, this is the Foodicles interpretation at replicating the delicious convenience store miso dip:

Convenience Store Miso Dip Recipe

Ingredients:
serves 1-2 persons

3 teaspoons Japanese mayonnaise
2 teaspoons white miso paste
1/8 teaspoon white sugar
sprinkle of lime juice

1. In developing this recipe, the brand and label of Japanese mayonnaise used will actually make a huge difference. Kewpie is a common brand in Japan and most especially abroad. If you only have access to Kewpie, be sure to get the red label and not the blue label for this recipe. Ajinomoto is another major brand for Japanese mayonnaise proudly using high-quality eggs and a balanced ratio of ingredients for flavor. To truly replicate convenience store miso, Ajinomoto does the job.

2. For taste testing as you make the dip, prepare vegetable sticks. The best ones to make are carrots, radish, and cabbage. Be sure to use the freshest vegetables, clean them well, and shave off the skin (for cabbage, peel off the top layer). You can have other vegetables, but some like broccoli tends to have an overpowering flavor.

3. In a small bowl, add 3 teaspoons Japanese mayonnaise, 2 teaspoons white miso paste, and 1/8 teaspoon white sugar. With a spoon, stir very well until completely smooth and fully incorporated. If the miso has little clumps, use the back of the spoon to flatten and smoothen them out and then continue to stir well. Squeeze a few drops of lime juice (literally 3-4 drops) into your stirring spoon and stir that very well into the dip.

4. While this recipe has been tested, every miso paste brand and Japanese mayonnaise brand has slightly different flavors. So once the dip is complete, taste it again to see if you need to add more miso, another pinch of sugar, or another sprinkle of lime juice.

5. Like in Japan, the miso dip is best served on the side with your vegetable sticks, cabbage, and even romaine hearts.