"Tonjiru" (Japanese style Pork soup)
"Tonjiru" (Japanese style Pork soup)

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, "tonjiru" (japanese style pork soup). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

"Tonjiru" (Japanese style Pork soup) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. "Tonjiru" (Japanese style Pork soup) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables. Packed with loads of vegetables and a small amount of pork, tonjiru is quite filling but you will be surprised to know the calories in tonjiru are low. It is considered to be a winter dish in Japan but I can't see why we shouldn't have it all year round. Tonjiru (Japanese Pork Soup) Tonjiru (豚汁 - also read as butajiru), is a Japanese pork soup loaded with vegetables, which makes it a hearty meal that's popular in homes around Japan during the cooler months of the year.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook "tonjiru" (japanese style pork soup) using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make "Tonjiru" (Japanese style Pork soup):
  1. Get Thinly sliced pork belly
  2. Make ready Daikon radish
  3. Make ready Carrot
  4. Prepare Chinese cabbage
  5. Prepare Usuage
  6. Take Konnyaku
  7. Prepare to garnish Japanese leek (green onions)
  8. Prepare Sesame oil
  9. Take Hon-Dashi dashi stock powder
  10. Get MIso

It's very very common within Japanese home cooking, my mum probably made a lot more Tonjiru Miso Soup than ordinary Miso Soup when I was growing up. This dish is great to make in a big batch and feed your family something delicious and nutritious. 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.

Instructions to make "Tonjiru" (Japanese style Pork soup):
  1. Cut the pork, vegetables and other ingredients in roughly the same size to your liking. Put the sesame oil in a frying pan and stir fry the prepared ingredients.
  2. Add some water (not on the list) and cook further until the pork and vegetables soften, then add dashi stock granules. Dissolve the miso into the soup. Adjust to taste.
  3. Sprinkle on the green onions to garnish.

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. Don't get alarmed because of Gobo, it actually tastes very good. Ton (pork) jiru (soup) is a soup with pork in it.

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