In most grocery stores or ethnic markets, you'll find three primary types of miso: white (shiro), yellow (shinshu), and red ...

Takahiro Terada, head chef at Tsuta, a ramen restaurant in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The thick paste is distinctively complex ... which is made by combining white and red miso, says Terada. Miso can also be made with 100 percent soybeans to produce hatcho miso, which is very ...

Sweet white miso (usually sold as shiro ... Korean grocers will sell a spicy type of bean paste called kochu jang (or gochujang), which is flavoured with red chilli and is great for giving a ...