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You are here: Home / All Recipes / Tonjiru (Butajiru): Pork and Vegetables Miso Soup

Tonjiru (Butajiru): Pork and Vegetables Miso Soup

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
Tonjiru (butajiru) is a variant of Japanese miso soup where the diluted miso is added after simmering small pieces of pork and vegetables in dashi.
Chunky enough for a light lunch, double or triple the ingredients because everyone will want a generous share.
Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 40 mins
Total Time 50 mins
Course Soup
Cuisine Japanese
Servings 4 people
Tonjiru (butajiru)
Print Recipe

Ingredients
  

  • 1 small handful wood ears
  • 1 small onion
  • 1 half-inch knob ginger
  • 300 grams pork belly or shoulder
  • 1 tablespoon sesame seed oil
  • 6 cups dashi
  • ½ cup julienned carrot
  • 1 cup green beans or yard-long beans, cut into two-inch lengths
  • 2 heaping tablespoons miso paste
  • salt
  • sliced scallions to garnish

Instructions
 

  • Place the wood ears in a bowl and pour in enough hot water to cover.
  • Peel and thinly slice the onion.
  • Peel and grate the ginger.
  • Thinly slice the pork.
  • Heat the sesame seed oil in a pot. Spread the pork slices and cook, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned.
  • Add the ginger and onion slices to the pork; continue cooking with occasional stirring until the onion slices are soft.
  • Pour the dashi into the pot.
  • Simmer the pork for about 20 minutes or until tender.
  • Drain the now-swollen wood ears and cut into bite-size pieces.
  • Add the wood ears, carrot and beans to the pork. Cover the pot and simmer until the vegetables are done.
  • Place the miso paste in a bowl and add a cup of the hot broth. Stir until no lumps remain.
  • Pour the diluted miso paste into the pot and stir. Taste. Add more salt, if needed.
  • Serve thr pork and vegetables miso soup topped with sliced scallions.

Notes

Tonjiru (butajiru) in bowl
Updated from a recipe originally published in November 27, 2019
Keyword Miso Soup
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