Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru)
Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru)

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Tonjiru is a savory miso soup with pork and root vegetables. Packed with an excellent source of vitamins, it's absolutely nourishing and soul-fulfilling! If you ask me what is my favorite miso soup, I would immediately say Tonjiru (豚汁). This Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup is one of the true comfort.

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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pork miso soup (tonjiru) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru):
  1. Make ready 200 g thinly sliced pork rib
  2. Make ready 100 g carrot
  3. Make ready 100 g onion
  4. Prepare 100 g white Daikon raddish
  5. Prepare 1/4 gobo (burdock root, optional)
  6. Get 1/2 tofu or atsuage (thick deep fried tofu)
  7. Prepare 100 g konnyaku
  8. Get 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  9. Prepare 1000 mL Dashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water)
  10. Get 1 tbsp soy sauce : (A)
  11. Take 3 tbsp miso : (A)
  12. Get 1 tsp sesame oil : (A)

Tonjiru (or Butajiru) is a kind of Miso Soup with pork and a lot of root vegetables such as Gobo (burdock root) and carrot. Even though it is a Miso Tonjiru has a distinct pork flavor and strong taste from Gobo. Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good. All the flavor of the pork.

Instructions to make Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru):
  1. Cut the daikon and carrot into quarter slices. Thinly slice the burdock root diagonally and thinly. Cut the onion into bite-size chunks.
  2. Cut the tofu and the Konnyaku into bite-size chunks. Boil the Konnyaku for 2-3 minutes to remove their scum. Cut the sliced pork into 2 cm width.
  3. Add the vegetable oil and the pork in a pot. Stir-fry over medium heat until its colour changes.
  4. Pour the Dashi broth. Heat over medium-high heat until it comes to a boil. Skim the scum from the soup.
  5. Add the Atsuage (or tofu) and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes.
  6. Add the condiments (A) to dissolve miso.

Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good. All the flavor of the pork. Tonjiru or Butajiru (豚汁,とん汁,とんじる) - both literally mean pig/pork soup — is a Japanese soup made with pork and vegetables, flavoured with miso. Compared to normal miso soup, tonjiru tend to be more substantial, with a larger quantity and variety of ingredients added to the soup. This tonjiru recipe combines miso soup with sliced pork and root vegetables for a hearty and filling soup meal that is quick and easy to prepare.

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