Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tonjiru : a miso based pork soup filled with vegetables. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables. Packed with loads of vegetables and a small amount of pork, tonjiru is quite filling but you will be surprised to know the calories in tonjiru are low. It is considered to be a winter dish in Japan but I can't see why we shouldn't have it all year round. Tonjiru (豚汁), literally meaning "pork (ton) soup (jiru)", is basically miso soup featuring pork and root vegetables.
Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tonjiru : a miso based pork soup filled with vegetables using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables:
- Prepare 5 cm Konbu(edible kelp) and 600 cc water
- Make ready 130 g Pork belly
- Take 3 cm Daikon Radish
- Make ready 3 cm Carrot
- Prepare 2 Shiitake mashrooms
- Take 1/4 Cotton tofu
- Get 1/4 Green onion
- Take 1 tbs Sesami oil
- Prepare pinch salt
- Take 2 tbs Miso
- Prepare 1/2 tsp Soy sauce
- Get 1/2 tsp Mirin
- Prepare 1 tbs Sake
- Prepare Japanese 7 spice mixture (Shichimi togarashi) as you like
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 soup, Tonjiru tastes very different from ordinary Miso Soup. Tonjiru has a distinct pork flavor and strong taste from Gobo. Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good.
Instructions to make Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables:
- Soak the Konbu in the water and let it stand 10 hours in the refrigerator.
- Peel the Daikon radish and carrots, cut them into 4 wedges each and cut the wedges into 5mm slices.
- Cut the pork into 5cm strips.
- Remove stem of the mushrooms and cut the cap into thin slices.
- Cut the naganegi-onion into 5 mm slices.
- Pluck off the tofu by hand into bite sized pieces and put in the boiling water for 2 minutes. Take it out, let it cool.
- Put 1 tbs of sesame oil into a pot then place on medium heat. Add the pork and fry until the color is white.
- Add the daikon radish, carrots and add a pinch of salt. Fry the ingredients for 1 minute.
- Add 1 tbs of sake, change the heat to low. Cover with a lid and let it simmer for 3 minutes.
- Change the heat to high and add Konbu along with the water it was soaking in. Add shiitake mushrooms.
- Let the dish simmer and remove the Konbu just before it starts to boil.
- Dissolve 1 tbs of miso into the pan and change the heat to low, then let it simmer for another 10 minutes.
- Add tofu and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
- Add naganegi onion, 1/2 tsp of soy sauce, 1/2 tsp of mirin, 1 tbs of miso. Turn off the heat just before it starts to boil.
- If you have time, let it cool and heat one more time before you eat. This will make the ingredients really soak up the flavor of the soup!
Tonjiru has a distinct pork flavor and strong taste from Gobo. Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good. Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables) instructions. Cut the pork slices into bite sizes. To prepare the vegetables: Peel, then cut the daikon, carrot, burdock root into rolling wedges by rotating the vegetables as you cut.
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