Darina Allen: What is miso, how to use it and a recipe for foolproof miso soup

And some fantastic new ways to add this super ingredient to your dishes

Miso is  packed with ‘good for your gut’ probiotics

This week, in answer to readers’ enquiries about how to use some 'new' ingredients, I've chosen to concentrate on miso for this article out of a list of more than 10, n'djuja, miso, sumac — I’ll get to the others in due course…

Some of you who enjoy cooking Asian and Japanese food particularly will have been enjoying miso in both raw and cooked dishes for years and others will have noticed it popping up in random recipes in cookbooks and articles with increasing frequency.