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).

Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Take 200 g thinly sliced pork rib
  2. Get 100 g carrot
  3. Prepare 100 g onion
  4. Take 100 g white Daikon raddish
  5. Prepare 1/4 gobo (burdock root, optional)
  6. Prepare 1/2 tofu or atsuage (thick deep fried tofu)
  7. Take 100 g konnyaku
  8. Get 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  9. Make ready 1000 mL Dashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water)
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce : (A)
  11. Make ready 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. 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. Compared to normal miso soup, tonjiru tend to be more substantial, with a larger quantity and variety of ingredients added to the soup.

Instructions 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. 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.

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