February 18, 2014

Japanese Soul Food : Miso soup

In here Philippines, There are a lot of Japanese restaurant crowded with Filipino customer.  What is surprising is that many Filipino are enjoying to eat Sashimi and other Japanese food.

Do you know Miso soup that is one of the Japanese soul food? In Japanese style dish, Miso soup is imperative food. There are rich variety ingredients of Miso soup. Of course vegetables, mushrooms, seafood, pork and eggs are cooked for Miso soup, so we don't get tired of eating Miso soup even if we eat  Miso soup everyday.
There are many kind of Miso. It is said that the taste of Miso soup is different in each home. Miso soup is Mom's cooking for Japanese.

We can obtain the nutrition that are dissolved from vegetables by eating soup (not only Miso soup). In addition, by eating the soup at the meal, we can feel of fullness easily and it prevent overeating. 

I have introduced some dishes in this blog, almost these dishes were for lunch box.  I would like to introduce the recipe of other Japanese food, not only for lunch box in the future.

Last time, I was asked from a mother of my son's classmate that the recipe of Miso soup, so I will introduce the recipe of Miso soup this time. 

This time's Miso soup is called "Tonjiru" that is one of the miso soup that include a lot of ingredients. "Ton" of the Tonjiru means pork.

[Ingredients]
Radish, 1/2 pc
・Carrot, 1/2 pc
・Potato, 1 to 2 pcs
・Onion, 1 pc
・Onion leaks, 2 pcs
・Pork(bacon slice), 4 slices
・Dashi, 1 tsp
・Sake, 1 tbsp
・Miso, 2 to 3 tbsp
・Water, 3 cups

[Provedure]
1. Cut all vegetables like following picture.

2. Put these vegetables and water into pan and heat it. Boil vegetables 5 to 10 minutes.

3. After cooked vegetables, cut the pork like following picture and put it into the pan. Boil it 3 to 5 minutes. (You can sauté the pork and vegetables before boiling. I don't want to use oil, so my recipe is only boiling.)

4. Put Sake (left of picture) and Dashi (Right of picture) into the pan. We can buy these ingredients at foreign country food corner of any supermarket.

5. Put the onion leaks and Miso into the pan while dissolved. Please adjust for your taste by adjusting amount of the Miso. 

Let's try home made Miso soup!

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