Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables
Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables

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Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables. Packed with loads of vegetables and a small amount of pork, tonjiru is quite filling but you will be surprised to know the calories in tonjiru are low. It is considered to be a winter dish in Japan but I can't see why we shouldn't have it all year round.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook tonjiru : a miso based pork soup filled with vegetables using 14 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables:
  1. Prepare 5 cm Konbu(edible kelp) and 600 cc water
  2. Make ready 130 g Pork belly
  3. Take 3 cm Daikon Radish
  4. Prepare 3 cm Carrot
  5. Make ready 2 Shiitake mashrooms
  6. Take 1/4 Cotton tofu
  7. Make ready 1/4 Green onion
  8. Get 1 tbs Sesami oil
  9. Make ready pinch salt
  10. Take 2 tbs Miso
  11. Take 1/2 tsp Soy sauce
  12. Take 1/2 tsp Mirin
  13. Get 1 tbs Sake
  14. Prepare Japanese 7 spice mixture (Shichimi togarashi) as you like

Cut vegetables in the same size and similar shape - If you want chunkier texture in your soup, you can cut bigger size but make sure all the ingredients are similar in shape and size for even cooking time. Tonjiru (豚汁) is Japanese pork soup with vegetables and miso. This is often served with steamed or multigrain rice. This soup is also popularly served at Tonkatsu restaurants.

Instructions to make Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables:
  1. Soak the Konbu in the water and let it stand 10 hours in the refrigerator.
  2. Peel the Daikon radish and carrots, cut them into 4 wedges each and cut the wedges into 5mm slices.
  3. Cut the pork into 5cm strips.
  4. Remove stem of the mushrooms and cut the cap into thin slices.
  5. Cut the naganegi-onion into 5 mm slices.
  6. Pluck off the tofu by hand into bite sized pieces and put in the boiling water for 2 minutes. Take it out, let it cool.
  7. Put 1 tbs of sesame oil into a pot then place on medium heat. Add the pork and fry until the color is white.
  8. Add the daikon radish, carrots and add a pinch of salt. Fry the ingredients for 1 minute.
  9. Add 1 tbs of sake, change the heat to low. Cover with a lid and let it simmer for 3 minutes.
  10. Change the heat to high and add Konbu along with the water it was soaking in. Add shiitake mushrooms.
  11. Let the dish simmer and remove the Konbu just before it starts to boil.
  12. Dissolve 1 tbs of miso into the pan and change the heat to low, then let it simmer for another 10 minutes.
  13. Add tofu and let it simmer for 10 minutes.
  14. Add naganegi onion, 1/2 tsp of soy sauce, 1/2 tsp of mirin, 1 tbs of miso. Turn off the heat just before it starts to boil.
  15. If you have time, let it cool and heat one more time before you eat. This will make the ingredients really soak up the flavor of the soup!

Due to the slow simmering of the pork, there is a depth of flavour to the soup that is full of umami deliciousness. Tonjiru is a miso based soup made with pork and very very common within Japanese home cooking, my mum probably made a lot more Tonjiru Miso Soup than ordinary Miso Soup. In Japanese, "ton" (豚) means pork and shiru (汁) means soup. These words come together to make Tonjiru which means 'Pork Soup', so pork is kind of a. Tonjiru (sometimes called Butajiru) is a hearty pork and vegetable miso soup.

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