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

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'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is something that I have loved my whole 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). This Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup is one of the true comfort.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have '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. Make ready Step 1
  2. Prepare 1 Burdock root
  3. Take 1/2 Konnyaku
  4. Take 1 Carrot
  5. Get 2 Onion
  6. Make ready 5 cm thickness Daikon radish
  7. Make ready 150 grams Sweet potato or other types of potatoes
  8. Make ready 150 grams Thin sliced pork or pork belly
  9. Take Step 3
  10. Make ready 800 ml Water
  11. Make ready 4 tbsp Miso
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp Sake
  13. Take Step 4
  14. Get 1 tbsp Gochujang

Compared to normal miso soup, tonjiru tend to be more substantial, with a larger quantity and variety of ingredients added to the 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.

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. Combining flavorful ingredients like pork belly and shiitake mushrooms with classic Japanese seasonings like mirin and dashi, this hearty tonjiru soup will delight friends and family when you whip it up in your home kitchen. Tonjiru is like an upgraded, meatier version of classic miso soup. The traditional tonjiru is made with tofu, miso, and dashi stock, combines pork with vegetables such as daikon, burdock, sweet potato, and konnyaku.

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