Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru)
Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru)

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pork miso soup (tonjiru). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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). This Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup is one of the true comfort.

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

The ingredients needed to make Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru):
  1. Get 200 g thinly sliced pork rib
  2. Prepare 100 g carrot
  3. Prepare 100 g onion
  4. Make ready 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. Make ready 100 g konnyaku
  8. Take 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  9. Prepare 1000 mL Dashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water)
  10. Get 1 tbsp soy sauce : (A)
  11. Take 3 tbsp miso : (A)
  12. Take 1 tsp sesame oil : (A)

This miso soup is very popular dish on winter time in Japan. You don't have to use all of the ingredients I used here. But you may need dashi stock if you use less. We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables.

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.

But you may need dashi stock if you use less. 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) 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.

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