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

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Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is something which I have loved my whole life.

Tonjiru (豚汁), literally meaning "pork (ton) soup (jiru)", is basically miso soup featuring pork and root vegetables. Some people call it Butajiru (豚汁) too, just another way to read the same kanji character. It may be a cold-weather staple, but I do enjoy the soup year-round. Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pork miso soup (tonjiru) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru):
  1. Take 200 g thinly sliced pork rib
  2. Make ready 100 g carrot
  3. Get 100 g onion
  4. Take 100 g white Daikon raddish
  5. Take 1/4 gobo (burdock root, optional)
  6. Take 1/2 tofu or atsuage (thick deep fried tofu)
  7. Get 100 g konnyaku
  8. Take 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  9. Make ready 1000 mL Dashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water)
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp soy sauce : (A)
  11. Get 3 tbsp miso : (A)
  12. Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil : (A)

This dish is great to make in a big batch and feed your family something delicious and nutritious. TONJIRU/ PORK AND VEGETABLE MISO SOUP TONJIRU is a very popular type of miso soup in Japan. We simmer pork together with lots of vegetables. The pork gives the nice richness to the TONJIRU soup.

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.

We simmer pork together with lots of vegetables. The pork gives the nice richness to the TONJIRU 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. Even though you use the same miso paste as usual, TONJIRU will be totally different from other traditional miso soup.

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