Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, tonjiru (miso soup with veggies and pork). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tonjiru (Miso Soup with Veggies and Pork) is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Tonjiru (Miso Soup with Veggies and Pork) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook tonjiru (miso soup with veggies and pork) using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tonjiru (Miso Soup with Veggies and Pork):
- Prepare 100 g pork
- Take 1/2 carrot
- Take 1 potato
- Prepare 1/3 konnyaku
- Get 1/2 onion
- Get 1 Tbsp miso
- Make ready 500 ml dashi soup
- Make ready 2 tsp sesame oil
Instructions to make Tonjiru (Miso Soup with Veggies and Pork):
- Chop all vegetables and pork into small pieces. (Since I have a small child, I cut them into a child-sized pieces, but you can cut as you wish.) Heat a pot with the sesame oil, add all the veggie and pork and fry on medium heat.
- Once cooked, add dashi soup (Japanese soup stock made from fish and kelp. You can also find "dashi powder" which you can make dashi easily by just adding water) and keep cooking on low heat with the lid on until the vegetables are soft, usually about 10 min.
- Finally add miso. Using a ladle, dissolve miso with some dashi soup. This is the good way to dissolve miso when making miso soup. Then mix in the miso to the veggies and pork and it's ready to eat! It is also good to garnish with a bit of "shichimi" - a mixture of red pepper and other spices.
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