'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup
'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup

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'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.

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 get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 'tonjiru' pork miso soup using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup:
  1. Get Step 1
  2. Make ready 1 Burdock root
  3. Take 1/2 Konnyaku
  4. Take 1 Carrot
  5. Take 2 Onion
  6. Make ready 5 cm thickness Daikon radish
  7. Get 150 grams Sweet potato or other types of potatoes
  8. Prepare 150 grams Thin sliced pork or pork belly
  9. Make ready Step 3
  10. Take 800 ml Water
  11. Get 4 tbsp Miso
  12. Get 1 tbsp Sake
  13. Get Step 4
  14. Take 1 tbsp Gochujang

Tonjiru is like an upgraded, meatier version of classic miso 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, Tonjiru tastes very different from ordinary Miso Soup. Tonjiru has a distinct pork flavor and strong taste from Gobo.

Instructions to make 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup:
  1. Cut the burdock into long thin shavings and soak in water.
  2. Tear the konnyaku pieces by hands. Cut the carrot to half moons, slice and quarter the daikon, roughly chop the sweet potato and thinly slice the onion.
  3. Boil water in a big pot, and cook all the vegetables briefly, soak in cold water, then drain.
  4. Boil water again in a big pot to cook the bite-sized pork quickly, and put it aside.
  5. Put all the vegetables into a pot. Add water and boil from water. When the vegetables are cooked through, add half of miso and sake.
  6. Return the pork into the pot with the vegetables and once it comes to the boil, add the rest of miso, sake and gochujang. When it boils again, it is done.
  7. Turn off the heat. Leave to cool for about an hour for the flavors to meld.
  8. At home, when I put red miso in Step 5, I also add 1 tablespoon of mirin to add sweetness and mildness to the soup.

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. 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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