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).

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pork miso soup (tonjiru) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru):
  1. Make ready thinly sliced pork rib
  2. Prepare carrot
  3. Take onion
  4. Prepare white Daikon raddish
  5. Get gobo (burdock root, optional)
  6. Take tofu or atsuage (thick deep fried tofu)
  7. Get konnyaku
  8. Get vegetable oil
  9. Make ready Dashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water)
  10. Take soy sauce : (A)
  11. Make ready miso : (A)
  12. Take 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. Miso soup is great anytime of the year, but in colder seasons, I like to make something heavier and heartier, like adding more vegetables and sliced of pork and transfom it into a tonjiru. Some of the more typical vegetables in a tonjiru are carrot, daikon, sweet potato, and burdock root.

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.

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. The traditional tonjiru is made with tofu, miso, and dashi stock, combines pork with vegetables such as daikon, burdock, sweet potato, and konnyaku. The whole tonjiru dish is very comforting in this cold winter weather.

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