Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru)

Name: Pork Miso Soup (Tonjiru)
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 200 g thinly sliced pork rib; 100 g carrot; 100 g onion; 100 g white Daikon raddish; 1/4 gobo (burdock root, optional); 1/2 tofu or atsuage (thick deep fried tofu); 100 g konnyaku; 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 1000 mL Dashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water); 1 tbsp soy sauce : (A); 3 tbsp miso : (A); 1 tsp sesame oil : (A)

Mogco Tokyo @harakiricafe

Tokyo, Japan

Tonjiru is a kind of miso soup, simmered with pork and vegetables.
It has more ingredients than that of miso soup that you may know.
My mum used to cook it in a cold winter.
#miso #soup #Japanese

Mogco Tokyo @harakiricafe

Tokyo, Japan

Tonjiru is a kind of miso soup, simmered with pork and vegetables.
It has more ingredients than that of miso soup that you may know.
My mum used to cook it in a cold winter.
#miso #soup #Japanese

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Ingredients

4 servings

200 gthinly sliced pork rib
100 gcarrot
100 gonion
100 gwhite Daikon raddish
1/4gobo (burdock root, optional)
1/2tofu or atsuage (thick deep fried tofu)
100 gkonnyaku
1 tbspvegetable oil
1000 mLDashi broth (or dissolve 1 tbsp Dashi powder in 1000 mL of water)
1 tbspsoy sauce : (A)
3 tbspmiso : (A)
1 tspsesame oil : (A)

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Steps

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.