Butajiru / Tonjiru
Butajiru / Tonjiru

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, butajiru / tonjiru. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. 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. This dish is full of ingredients strange to a Western audience but they all come together in the end.

Butajiru / Tonjiru is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Butajiru / Tonjiru is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Butajiru / Tonjiru:
  1. Make ready 3 cups Dashi Stock OR Water
  2. Make ready 200 g Pork *thinly sliced
  3. Prepare 1/2 Carrot
  4. Get 1/2 Onion
  5. Prepare 150 g Konnyaku *optional
  6. Prepare 2-3 Satoimo (Taro) OR 1 Potato
  7. Take 2-3 Shiitake
  8. Make ready 1/2 Gobo *optional
  9. Get 1/2 block Tofu
  10. Make ready 3-4 tablespoons Miso
  11. Get 2-3 Spring Onion *finely chopped
  12. Get Shichimi (Japanese Chilli Powder) *optional

Even though it is a Miso soup, Tonjiru tastes very different from ordinary. Tonjiru or Butajiru (豚汁) is a soup made with pork and vegetables, flavoured with miso. This dish was cooked by Satoshi Fukube during Wild Fire event of Kanya Festival. The kanji for pig (豚) can be pronounced either as "buta" or as "ton" in Japanese.

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.

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. 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 juice — 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" is usually made by stewing thinly sliced pieces of pork, alongside vegetables, in "dashi" The name "tonjiru" is said to be dominant in Eastern Japan, while the name "butajiru" is said to be more.

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