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Tonjiru – Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup
Tonjiru is very similar to miso soup, but it contains thinly sliced pork and more vegetables.
Popular vegetable ingredients for tonjiru include burdock root, konnyaku, seaweed, spring onions, daikon radish, carrot, tofu including fried tofu (aburaage), potatoes, taro or sweet potato, and mushrooms such as shiitake and shimeji.
It’s a popular dish in winter because it’s hearty soup that warms up bodies and hearts. If you know how to make miso soup, it will be super easy for you.
| Prep Time | 30 minutes |
| Cook Time | 30 minutes |
| Servings |
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Ingredients
- 100 g carrot
- 100 g potatoes taro or sweet potatoes will be good too
- 200 g pork
- 5 cups dashi stock
- 4 tbsp miso
- 2 tbsp white wine or sake
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2/3 cup chopped green onion
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Peel the daikon radish and the carrot, cut into quarters lengthwise, and then slice them crosswise (Or whatever you like, just a bit smaller than bite size pieces).
- Slice the pork. (I usually buy pork chop and julienne it)
- Heat the soup pot or soup pan and add the vegetable oil. Brown the pork evenly and add the daikon radish and carrot.
- Add the dashi stock and bring it to boil. Then lower the heat and simmer for about 10 minutes
- Peel the potatoes and cut them into bite size pieces.
- Add the potatoes and white wine to the soup and simmer for another 15 minutes.
- When the potatoes is soft enough, add the miso paste by dissolving the paste into a bit of the liquid.
- Serve it in a small bowl and add green onions on top.
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