How to Prepare Award-winning Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables

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Tonjiru is a savory miso soup with pork and root vegetables. Packed with an excellent source of vitamins, it's absolutely nourishing and soul-fulfilling! If you ask me what is my favorite miso soup, I would immediately say Tonjiru (豚汁). This Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup is one of the true comfort.

To begin with this recipe, we must 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 can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tonjiru : A miso based pork soup filled with vegetables:

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

Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good. All the flavor of the pork. The traditional tonjiru is made with tofu, miso, and dashi stock, combines pork with vegetables such as daikon, burdock, sweet potato, and konnyaku. The whole tonjiru dish is very comforting in this cold winter weather.

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!

The traditional tonjiru is made with tofu, miso, and dashi stock, combines pork with vegetables such as daikon, burdock, sweet potato, and konnyaku. The whole tonjiru dish is very comforting in this cold winter weather. I threw in some wakame seaweed in the soup as well. When the ingredients become tender, remove the kombu, then mix in the miso into the soup. I've told you guys before about my tonjiru (豚汁) before, with big chunks of pork belly and vegetables, it's more like a hearty pork and miso stew than a soup.

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