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

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pork miso soup (tonjiru). One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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).

Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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. Prepare 200 g thinly sliced pork rib
  2. Get 100 g carrot
  3. Prepare 100 g onion
  4. Make ready 100 g white Daikon raddish
  5. Make ready 1/4 gobo (burdock root, optional)
  6. Get 1/2 tofu or atsuage (thick deep fried tofu)
  7. Prepare 100 g konnyaku
  8. Take 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  9. Get 1000 mL Dashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water)
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce : (A)
  11. Prepare 3 tbsp miso : (A)
  12. Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil : (A)

We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables. The root vegetables and pork will warm you up. This porky soup is a hearty winter dish that's popular in Japan - you could make it using chunks of pork belly or small pieces of pork spare ribs cut through the bone, but you'd need to increase the cooking Stir in the miso and green onions to combine well and season to taste with salt and pepper. Tonjiru (or Butajiru) is a kind of Miso Soup with pork and a lot of root vegetables such as Gobo (burdock root) and carrot.

Steps 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.

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. Unlike miso soup, which usually contains things like seaweed and tofu, tonjiru instead includes many hearty root vegetables. It also contains shiitake mushrooms, which not only have a nice flavor but are known for their many medicinal qualities. The pork belly adds a lot of substance and flavor to the dish.

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