Tonjiru (Pork miso soup)
Tonjiru (Pork miso soup)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, tonjiru (pork miso soup). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really 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. Tonjiru is a savory miso soup with pork and root vegetables.

Tonjiru (Pork miso soup) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Tonjiru (Pork miso soup) is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have tonjiru (pork miso soup) using 11 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Tonjiru (Pork miso soup):
  1. Prepare 200 g thinly sliced pork belly
  2. Take 200 g daikon radish
  3. Make ready 100 g carrot
  4. Take 150 g burdock root
  5. Prepare 150 g konnyaku
  6. Get 1 spring onion
  7. Make ready 120 ml dashi stock
  8. Take 100 g miso
  9. Take 2 teaspoon soy sauce
  10. Get Thinly sliced green onion (garnish)
  11. Make ready 7 spice chili power (optional)

Chunky enough for a light lunch, double or triple the ingredients because everyone will want a generous share. Even though you use the same miso paste as usual, TONJIRU will be totally different from other traditional miso soup. It is because Dashi (broth) from pork makes this miso soup great! Using sliced pork belly is perfect, but if you can't find it, you can use the other part of pork. (Please slice it thinly.) 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 Tonjiru (Pork miso soup):
  1. Peel the dikon radish and carrot.
  2. Cut the dikon radish and carrot into quarters lengthwise and then cut into thin slices.
  3. Wash the burdock root well, then scrape the skin with the back of a knife. Don’t peel the burdock too much as the part just under the skin contains a lot of nutrients and flavor.
  4. Make several long shallow cuts lengthwise all the way around the burdock root.
  5. Shave the burdock root into small strips over cold water and soak them for about 5 minutes to remove bitterness, then drain.
  6. Cut spring onion into 2 cm long pieces.
  7. Cut the konnyaku into thin short strips.
  8. Cut the pork belly into 3 cm thick slices.
  9. Heat the pan over medium-high heat, place vegetable oil and then add the pork and sauté well.
  10. Add the dikon, carrot, burdock root, spring onion and konnyaku and stir-fry.
  11. Once the fat from the pork is evenly coating the vegetables, add the dashi stock and simmer, skimming occasionally.
  12. Once the vegetables become tender, add the miso by dissolving it in a miso strainer or a ladle with some of the soup until no lumps remain.
  13. Add a 1 teaspoon of soy sauce.
  14. Serve the miso soup in a bowl, and then sprinkle thinly sliced green onion and seven spice chili powder (shichimi tougarashi) according to your preference.

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 is a classic winter dish of slowly stewed slices of pork mixed with vegetables and served in a dashi and miso flavoured soup broth. A popular recipe all over Japan due to being quick, easy, versatile, and delicious, this soup is bound to become a favourite in your household as well. For our Tonjiru, the low-sodium content means you can add significantly more miso to the soup, giving it a marvelously rich texture and full-bodied taste that's almost like a New England-style clam chowder.

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