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Easiest Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup

 ·  ☕ 5 min read  ·  ✍️ Estelle Mason

'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, 'tonjiru' pork miso soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 'tonjiru' pork miso soup using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup:
  1. Take Step 1
  2. Take 1 Burdock root
  3. Take 1/2 Konnyaku
  4. Prepare 1 Carrot
  5. Take 2 Onion
  6. Make ready 5 cm thickness Daikon radish
  7. Take 150 grams Sweet potato or other types of potatoes
  8. Get 150 grams Thin sliced pork or pork belly
  9. Make ready Step 3
  10. Get 800 ml Water
  11. Make ready 4 tbsp Miso
  12. Take 1 tbsp Sake
  13. Take Step 4
  14. Get 1 tbsp Gochujang
Steps to make 'Tonjiru' Pork Miso Soup:
  1. Cut the burdock into long thin shavings and soak in water.
  2. Tear the konnyaku pieces by hands. Cut the carrot to half moons, slice and quarter the daikon, roughly chop the sweet potato and thinly slice the onion.
  3. Boil water in a big pot, and cook all the vegetables briefly, soak in cold water, then drain.
  4. Boil water again in a big pot to cook the bite-sized pork quickly, and put it aside.
  5. Put all the vegetables into a pot. Add water and boil from water. When the vegetables are cooked through, add half of miso and sake.
  6. Return the pork into the pot with the vegetables and once it comes to the boil, add the rest of miso, sake and gochujang. When it boils again, it is done.
  7. Turn off the heat. Leave to cool for about an hour for the flavors to meld.
  8. At home, when I put red miso in Step 5, I also add 1 tablespoon of mirin to add sweetness and mildness to the soup.

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