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

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Tonjiru is a savory pork and vegetable miso soup with an excellent source of B vitamins, fiber, and minerals and it's nourishing and oh-soul-fulfilling! Use of this website is subject to mandatory arbitration and other terms and conditions, select this link to read those agreements. Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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. Make ready Step 1
  2. Take 1 Burdock root
  3. Make ready 1/2 Konnyaku
  4. Prepare 1 Carrot
  5. Take 2 Onion
  6. Take 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. Prepare 4 tbsp Miso
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp Sake
  13. Prepare Step 4
  14. Prepare 1 tbsp Gochujang

When I was in college, I used to make a big pot of this pork and vegetable miso soup and ate it throughout the week. 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.

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. Tonjiru is usually made by stewing thinly sliced pieces of pork, alongside. Tonjiru (Pork & Veggies Miso Soup) by Takehito. Tonjiru (Pork & Veggies Miso Soup) Print Recipe.

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