Japanese Tonjiru Soup
Ton or another word called Buta which mean pork in Japanese. Thus, pork play the main role in this traditional japanese soup – Tonjiru. This a wonderful dish in winter where you can feel the touch of heart from the people who cook this. This homestyle hearty soup (Aijyo soup) is rarely found in restaurants outside Japan nowadays, though, it is easy recipe to make at home.
So, try this fabulous traditional japanese taste blended pork and various kinds of vegetables with miso flavor recipe. Enjoy and share the “Aijyo” with your family and diet with soup.
Below are vegetables* (ingredients) that mostly used in preparing this soup.
Daikon – large white radish
Carrots
Gobo – burdock root
Satoimo – type of taro
Satsuma imo – Japanese sweet potato
Renkon – lotus root
Shiitake – mushroom
Konnyaku – Konjac
Aburage – tofu pockets
Tofu cut into small cubes
Negi (Japanese leek) – garnish for the soup
Ingredients:
• 200g pork thinly sliced
• any of the ingredients listed above, cut into slices
• 5 cups of water or dashi
• 5 tbsp of miso
• 2tbsp vegetable oil
Preparations:
Cook taro into boiling water for about 10 ~ 15 minutes in a pan. Add in vegetable oil and saute the pork together with the vegetables* above. Put dashi soup stock in, bring to boil and slimmer for 30minutes in low heat. Scoop out some soup stock from the pan and dissolve miso in it. Gradually return the miso mixture in the soup. Stir the soup gently. Garnish with the thinly sliced Japanese leek.
