Pork Soup with Ginger and Lots of Root Vegetables
Pork Soup with Ginger and Lots of Root Vegetables

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Great recipe for Pork Soup with Ginger and Lots of Root Vegetables. A friend told me that miso soup is delicious with some grated ginger added to it. Since then, we've been enjoying ginger-miso soup in our family. Pork soup is also more tasty with some ginger in it, plus it really warms you up!.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook pork soup with ginger and lots of root vegetables using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pork Soup with Ginger and Lots of Root Vegetables:
  1. Make ready Coarsely chopped pork
  2. Make ready Daikon radish
  3. Prepare Carrot
  4. Take Burdock root
  5. Take Satoimo (taro)
  6. Take Lotus root
  7. Make ready Tofu
  8. Get Ginger
  9. Prepare Japanese leek
  10. Take Dashi stock
  11. Make ready Sake
  12. Take to 4 tablespoons Miso
  13. Make ready Sake lees (if you have them)

To start the lotus root soup, add all the prepared ingredients to a stock pot or earthen pot: the (blanched) pork, seaweed/kelp, lotus root, ginger, dried goji berries (if using), and cold water. Bring it to boil, and then immediately turn it to down to a slow simmer. Meanwhile, heat vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add broth, water, soy sauce and chili garlic sauce.

Steps to make Pork Soup with Ginger and Lots of Root Vegetables:
  1. Peel the daikon radish and cut into quarters, then slice thinly. Do not peel the carrot; cut into half lengthwise and then slice thinly.
  2. Scrape the skin off the burdock root with the back of a knife, and cut into 1 cm thick diagonal slices. Peel the taro root, cut into half and then slice about 5 mm thick.
  3. Cut the unpeeled lotus root into half lengthwise, then slice about 5 mm thick.
  4. Cut the tofu into bite-sized pieces.
  5. Grate half of the ginger with the skin still on, and julienne the rest. Chop the leek finely.
  6. Cut the pork up into bite-sized pieces.
  7. Put the dashi stock and sake in a pan and bring to a boil. Add the pork. Skim off any scum, and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
  8. Put all the vegetables except for the leek, plus the tofu, in the pan, and simmer until the vegetables are tender. (Lower the heat after it comes to a boil.)
  9. Dissolve the miso and sake lees, and mix into the soup - and it's done! The saltiness of miso depends on the type, so please taste and adjust the amount.
  10. Ladle into bowls, garnish with the chopped leek plus some shichimi spice to taste, and enjoy.

Meanwhile, heat vegetable oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add broth, water, soy sauce and chili garlic sauce. 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.

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