Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables)
Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and 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 recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook filling tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables) using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables):
  1. Take 200 grams Pork belly, thinly sliced
  2. Take 1/4 Daikon (white radish)
  3. Take 1 Carrot
  4. Prepare 1 Burdock root
  5. Take 5 Taro root (satoimo potatoes)
  6. Get 1 slice Konnyaku
  7. Get 1 Green onion
  8. Get 1000 ml Strong bonito dashi stock
  9. Prepare 3 tbsp Blended miso
  10. Make ready 3 tbsp Red miso
  11. Get 1 tbsp Mirin
  12. Get 1 Sesame oil (to taste)
  13. Make ready 1 Ichimi spice or shichimi spice (to taste)

I've told you guys before about my tonjiru (豚汁) before, with big chunks of pork belly and vegetables, it's more like a hearty pork and miso stew than a soup. 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 Sometimes people like to put some sweet potatoes or taro, depending on each home, therefore it could be very filling. We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables.

Instructions to make Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables):
  1. Cut the pork slices into bite sizes. To prepare the vegetables: Peel, then cut the daikon, carrot, burdock root into rolling wedges by rotating the vegetables as you cut. Pre-boil the taro root but leave a slight crunch, and cut into bite sized pieces. Boil the konnyaku, and cut with a spoon into bite sized pieces as well. Chop the green onion finely.
  2. Heat the saucepan, add a generous amount of sesame oil, and stir fry the pork. When the pork is cooked through, fry the daikon, carrot, burdock root, taro root, and konnyaku until all the ingredients have been coated with the oil.
  3. Add Japanese soup stock (dashi) into the pot from Step 3. Simmer the vegetables while skimming foam off the surface until the vegetables are cooked through. Serve in a dish, and garnish with chopped green onion. If you'd like, sprinkle with ichimi or shichimi spice.

The root vegetables and pork will warm you up. This tonjiru doesn't use any extra oil, making the soup exceptionally healthy. The taro tends to cause boiling over so leave the lid slightly open or reduce the. 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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