Japanese

Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup)

Name: Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1/2 lb thinly sliced pork belly; 5 cups dashi stock; 1/2 daikon radish; 1 carrots; 1 gobo; 1/2 konnyaku; 4 tbsp white miso paste; 2 scallions

Kenji @kenji_notebook

Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup) is Japanese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1/2 lb thinly sliced pork belly
5 cups dashi stock
1/2 daikon radish
1 carrots
1 gobo
1/2 konnyaku
4 tbsp white miso paste
2 scallions

How to cook it

Cut the pork, daikon, carrot, gobo, and konnyaku into bite-size pieces.
Cook the pork in a dry pot over medium heat until browned, about 3 minutes.
Add the vegetables and stir 2 minutes, then pour in the dashi.
Simmer until the vegetables are tender, about 18 minutes.
Whisk a ladle of the hot broth into the miso until smooth, stir it back in without boiling hard, and top with sliced scallions.

Watch how to cook Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How to Make Tonjiru (Recipe) 豚汁の作り方 (レシピ) Play the video

Serve it with

A Japanese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Buri Daikon (Yellowtail and Daikon Simmer)
  
  30 min
The cooked vegetable
- Agedashi Tofu (Fried Tofu in Dashi Sauce)
  
  20 min
What it is eaten with
- Genmai Gohan (Steamed Brown Rice)
  
  45 min
The sharp little thing
- Beni Shoga (Red Pickled Ginger)
  
  2 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup) carries soy and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	Yes	Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup)
Fish	Yes	Asari no Osuimono (Clear Clam Soup)
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 340 kcal
Protein: 8 g
Carbs: 16 g
Fat: 27 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 540 mg
Saturated fat: 10 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Tonjiru (Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.