Steps to Prepare Award-winning Tonjiru (Pork miso soup)

Tonjiru (Pork miso soup). 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 is quite different from the usual miso soup as miso soups are normally just vegetables with no oil in them. Butajiru or tonjiru (豚汁, "pork soup") is a Japanese soup made with pork and vegetables, flavoured with miso. It is a more substantial version of miso soup, with a larger quantity and variety of ingredients.

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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 have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have tonjiru (pork miso soup) using 11 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tonjiru (Pork miso soup):

1. {Prepare of thinly sliced pork belly.
2. {Take of daikon radish.
3. {Make ready of carrot.
4. {Make ready of burdock root.
5. {Prepare of konnyaku.
6. {Take of spring onion.
7. {Prepare of dashi stock.
8. {Prepare of miso.
9. {Get of soy sauce.
10. {Prepare of Thinly sliced green onion (garnish).
11. {Make ready of spice chili power (optional).

I cook special miso soup, "TONJIRU: pork miso soup" in that case. It is definitely impossible to talk about genuine miso soup without eating. 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.

Steps to make Tonjiru (Pork miso soup):

1. Peel the dikon radish and carrot..
2. Cut the dikon radish and carrot into quarters lengthwise and then cut into thin slices..
3. Wash the burdock root well, then scrape the skin with the back of a knife. Don’t peel the burdock too much as the part just under the skin contains a lot of nutrients and flavor..
4. Make several long shallow cuts lengthwise all the way around the burdock root..
5. Shave the burdock root into small strips over cold water and soak them for about 5 minutes to remove bitterness, then drain..
6. Cut spring onion into 2 cm long pieces..
7. Cut the konnyaku into thin short strips..
8. Cut the pork belly into 3 cm thick slices..
9. Heat the pan over medium-high heat, place vegetable oil and then add the pork and sauté well..
10. Add the dikon, carrot, burdock root, spring onion and konnyaku and stir-fry..
11. Once the fat from the pork is evenly coating the vegetables, add the dashi stock and simmer, skimming occasionally..
12. Once the vegetables become tender, add the miso by dissolving it in a miso strainer or a ladle with some of the soup until no lumps remain..
13. Add a 1 teaspoon of soy sauce..
14. Serve the miso soup in a bowl, and then sprinkle thinly sliced green onion and seven spice chili powder (shichimi tougarashi) according to your preference..

Tonjiru has a distinct pork flavor and strong taste from Gobo. Tonjiru is a miso based soup made with pork and vegetables. It's very very common within Japanese home cooking, my mum probably made a How to make classic Japanese homemade "Tonjiru" Miso Soup (豚汁). Thinly sliced pork belly cooked in a dashi broth with daikon, shiitake mushrooms, carrot. We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables.

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