Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables
Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables

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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).

To begin with this particular 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 can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables:
  1. Get 5 cm Konbu(edible kelp) and 600 cc water
  2. Take 130 g Pork belly
  3. Take 3 cm Daikon Radish
  4. Get 3 cm Carrot
  5. Take 2 Shiitake mashrooms
  6. Get 1/4 Cotton tofu
  7. Take 1/4 Green onion
  8. Make ready 1 tbs Sesami oil
  9. Take pinch salt
  10. Make ready 2 tbs Miso
  11. Prepare 1/2 tsp Soy sauce
  12. Make ready 1/2 tsp Mirin
  13. Prepare 1 tbs Sake
  14. Take Japanese 7 spice mixture (Shichimi togarashi) as you like

Warm yourself up during the winter with this easy tonjiru pork soup recipe. Tonjiru is a classic winter dish of slowly stewed slices of pork mixed with. 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.

Instructions to make Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables:
  1. Soak the Konbu in the water and let it stand 10 hours in the refrigerator.
  2. Peel the Daikon radish and carrots, cut them into 4 wedges each and cut the wedges into 5mm slices.
  3. Cut the pork into 5cm strips.
  4. Remove stem of the mushrooms and cut the cap into thin slices.
  5. Cut the naganegi-onion into 5 mm slices.
  6. 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.
  7. Put 1 tbs of sesame oil into a pot then place on medium heat. Add the pork and fry until the color is white.
  8. Add the daikon radish, carrots and add a pinch of salt. Fry the ingredients for 1 minute.
  9. Add 1 tbs of sake, change the heat to low. Cover with a lid and let it simmer for 3 minutes.
  10. Change the heat to high and add Konbu along with the water it was soaking in. Add shiitake mushrooms.
  11. Let the dish simmer and remove the Konbu just before it starts to boil.
  12. Dissolve 1 tbs of miso into the pan and change the heat to low, then let it simmer for another 10 minutes.
  13. Add tofu and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
  14. 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.
  15. 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!

Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good. Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables. Packed with loads of vegetables and pork, tonjiru is quite filling but not high calorie. Easy recipe for Japanese tonjiru soup (pork and vegetables miso soup). Healthy, nutritious, superbly delicious and wholesome soup.

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