Simmered Tonjiru (Pork Soup)
Simmered Tonjiru (Pork 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! When you are ready to serve, reheat the miso soup on medium-low heat and keep it at a low simmer. NEVER let the miso soup boil because miso will.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook simmered tonjiru (pork soup) using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Simmered Tonjiru (Pork Soup):
  1. Take 200 grams Pork
  2. Take 1 tsp (Pre-seasoning: Soy sauce and sake)
  3. Make ready 1/4 ○ Daikon radish
  4. Make ready 1/2 each of small ones ○ Carrot and burdock root
  5. Prepare 3 ○ Aburaage
  6. Prepare 2 leaves ○ Chinese cabbage
  7. Make ready 4 ○ Taro root (optional)
  8. Take 1200 ml Dashi stock (or if using dashi stock granules, 1 teaspoon)
  9. Get 1 Miso
  10. Prepare 1 Green onions or scallions

Combining flavorful ingredients like pork belly and shiitake mushrooms with classic Japanese seasonings like mirin and dashi, this hearty tonjiru soup will. Warm yourself up during the winter with this easy tonjiru pork soup recipe. We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables. The root vegetables and pork will warm you up.

Steps to make Simmered Tonjiru (Pork Soup):
  1. Cut the pork into bite-sized pieces. Peel the vegetables, halve the daikon radish and carrot lengthwise and slice rather thickly. Slice the the taro root into thick rounds. Chop up the green onion.
  2. Shave the burdock root into thin strips. Soak into a bowl of cold water with a little vinegar added to get rid of the bitterness. Julienne the aburaage. Cut the Chinese cabbage into 7-8 mm wide pieces.
  3. Heat up a pan and added the sesame oil. Add the pork and stir-fry. When the meat changes color, take the pan off the heat and cool the bottom on a moistened and wrung out kitchen towel. By doing this the pork won't stick to the pan as much. Scrape the pork off the pan, then return the pan to the heat.
  4. When the pork is cooked, add the vegetables.
  5. Once the vegetables are lightly stir-fried, add enough dashi stock to cover. Bring to a boil, then skim off the scum.
  6. When the vegetables are cooked through, dissolve in a little miso. Bring back to a boil, lower the heat and simmer gently for 30 to 40 minutes.
  7. If the dashi has reduced down too much, add a little more. Dissolve in some more miso to taste.
  8. Sprinkle with the chopped green onions to finish. If you have time, take the pan off the heat and let rest for 20-30 minutes, then reheat just before serving. It will taste even better.

Remove and place it onto a tray. 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. Tonjiru (豚汁) is Japanese pork soup with vegetables and miso.

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