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

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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.

Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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

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

Tonjiru (butajiru) is a variant of Japanese miso soup where the diluted miso is added after simmering small pieces of pork and vegetables in dashi. Chunky enough for a light lunch, double or triple the ingredients because everyone will want a generous share. The BEST Asian Low-Carb/Keto recipe for Japanese Tonjiru. Even though you use the same miso paste as usual, TONJIRU will be totally different from other traditional miso 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.

The BEST Asian Low-Carb/Keto recipe for Japanese Tonjiru. Even though you use the same miso paste as usual, TONJIRU will be totally different from other traditional miso soup. It is because Dashi (broth) from pork makes this miso soup great! 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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