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

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, tonjiru : a miso based pork soup filled with vegetables. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Shichimi tōgarashi goes well with miso based stew and Japanese style noodle soups, which I will post sometime this year. When I feel that a main dish might 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. Tonjiru is a hearty pork and vegetable miso soup.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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. Make ready 3 cm Daikon Radish
  4. Prepare 3 cm Carrot
  5. Make ready 2 Shiitake mashrooms
  6. Take 1/4 Cotton tofu
  7. Take 1/4 Green onion
  8. Make ready 1 tbs Sesami oil
  9. Prepare pinch salt
  10. Prepare 2 tbs Miso
  11. Prepare 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

I threw in some wakame seaweed in the soup as well. This is also a kind of dish. Miso soup is great anytime of the year, but in colder seasons, I like to make something heavier and heartier, like adding more vegetables and sliced of pork Some of the more typical vegetables in a tonjiru are carrot, daikon, sweet potato, and burdock root. Konnyaku is also pretty common, and you.

Steps 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!

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 Tonjiru has a distinct pork flavor and strong taste from Gobo. Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good. All the flavor of the pork. Unlike miso soup, which usually contains things like seaweed and tofu, tonjiru instead includes many hearty root vegetables.

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