TONJIRU (Pork Miso Soup)
TONJIRU (Pork Miso Soup)

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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 have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tonjiru (pork miso soup) using 16 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make TONJIRU (Pork Miso Soup):
  1. Prepare 1000 ml (about 4 U.S. cup) water
  2. Make ready 150 g (1/3 lb) sliced pork belly
  3. Get 1/2 gobo (burdock root)
  4. Get 1/2 carrot
  5. Prepare 2 inch daikon
  6. Get 2 satoimo (baby taro)
  7. Get 1 small sweet potato
  8. Take 1/2 leak
  9. Prepare 2 Shitake
  10. Take 1/3 block konnyaku (konjac)
  11. Get 1/2 block tofu
  12. Take 1 tsp grated ginger
  13. Prepare 2 tsp soy sauce
  14. Make ready 2 tsp MIRIN
  15. Make ready 4 and 1/2 tbsp MISO
  16. Take 2 tsp sesame oil

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. 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. We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables.

Steps to make TONJIRU (Pork Miso Soup):
  1. Cut pork into bite-sized pieces.
  2. Peel the Daikon and Carrot. Cut into quarter rounds.
  3. Remove dirt from the burdock, Make a lengthwise cross shape incision.Cut it with a knife as if you were sharpening pencil. Soak it in water about 5 minutes. Then rinse and drain the burdock.
  4. Tear the block of konnyaku with your hands.
  5. Slice Shitake.
  6. Peel Satoimo and sweet potato. Cut into bite-size.
  7. Slice leek.
  8. Heat the salad oil in a large pot, and fry the pork.
  9. When the pork is cooked, Add the all vegetables and konnyaku. Stir together.
  10. Pour water into a large pot.
  11. When it starts to a boil, skim off the scum.
  12. Tear the block of tofu with your hands, And add them.
  13. Simmer until the vegetables are tender.
  14. Dissolve the miso into the stock. And, Add soy sauce, MIRIN, sesame oil and grated ginger.
  15. Ready to eat!

The root vegetables and pork will warm you up. 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. 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. Combining flavorful ingredients like pork belly and shiitake mushrooms with classic Japanese seasonings like mirin and dashi, this hearty tonjiru soup will delight friends and family when you whip it up in your home kitchen.

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