miso (redirected from Miso paste)

mi·so  (ms)

n. pl. mi·sos

A thick fermented paste made of cooked soybeans, salt, and often rice or barley, and used especially in making soups and sauces.

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miso [ˈmiːsəʊ]

n

(Cookery) a thick brown salty paste made from soya beans, used to flavour savoury dishes, esp soups

[from Japanese]

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miso - a thick paste made from fermented soybeans and barley or rice malt; used in Japanese cooking to make soups or sauces paste, spread - a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes Nihon, Nippon, Japan - a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building