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

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, 'tonjiru' pork miso soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

These three vegetables add unique flavors, depth, and sweetness. 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 a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables.

'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have 'tonjiru' pork miso soup using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup:
  1. Get Step 1
  2. Make ready Burdock root
  3. Make ready Konnyaku
  4. Make ready Carrot
  5. Make ready Onion
  6. Take cm thickness Daikon radish
  7. Make ready Sweet potato or other types of potatoes
  8. Prepare Thin sliced pork or pork belly
  9. Make ready Step 3
  10. Take Water
  11. Take Miso
  12. Get Sake
  13. Get Step 4
  14. Get Gochujang

Chunky enough for a light lunch, double or triple the ingredients because everyone will want a generous share. We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables. The root vegetables and pork will warm you up. Tonjiru (豚汁) is Japanese pork soup with vegetables and miso.

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.

This is often served with steamed or multigrain rice. This soup is also popularly served at Tonkatsu restaurants. Due to the slow simmering of the pork, there is a depth of flavour to the soup that is full of umami deliciousness. 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.

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