Butajiru / Tonjiru
Butajiru / Tonjiru

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, butajiru / tonjiru. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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. We are making healthy, nutritious Tonjiru, pork miso soup with lots of vegetables.

Butajiru / Tonjiru is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Butajiru / Tonjiru is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook butajiru / tonjiru using 12 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Butajiru / Tonjiru:
  1. Make ready Dashi Stock OR Water
  2. Get Pork *thinly sliced
  3. Get Carrot
  4. Prepare Onion
  5. Get Konnyaku *optional
  6. Take Satoimo (Taro) OR 1 Potato
  7. Take Shiitake
  8. Make ready Gobo *optional
  9. Get Tofu
  10. Take Miso
  11. Prepare Spring Onion *finely chopped
  12. Take Shichimi (Japanese Chilli Powder) *optional

The kanji for pig (豚) can be pronounced either as "buta" or as "ton" in Japanese. 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. Butajiru is a simple Japanese miso soup elevated with tender pork slices and a variety of Numerous vegetables are added to butajiru, but the most traditional options include typical Japanese root.

Instructions to make Butajiru / Tonjiru:
  1. Prepare the Vegetables and Pork. Slice Pork thinly, and cut Vegetables and Tofu into small bite-size pieces.
  2. Heat Dashi Stock (OR Water) and Vegetables in a pot, and cook on a medium heat until vegetables are soft. Then add thinly sliced Pork.
  3. When Pork is cooked, add Miso and Tofu. Remove the soup from the heat just before it starts to boil.
  4. Sprinkle finely chopped spring onions, and serve. *Shichimi (Japanese Chilli Powder) is also recommended to add extra flavour.

Tonjiru (豚汁), which is also sometimes called Butajiru, literally means "pork soup" and is a mainstay at the dinner table during the frigid months of winter. To make the preparation fast, the pork is usually. Tonjiru or Butajiru (豚汁,とん汁,とんじる) - both literally mean pig/pork soup — is a Japanese soup made with pork and vegetables, flavoured with miso. Compared to normal miso soup, tonjiru tend to be more substantial, with a larger quantity and variety of ingredients added to the soup. Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables.

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