Miso Soup with Pork and Vegetables

Name: Miso Soup with Pork and Vegetables (Tanuki Jiru)
Yield: Serves four
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 200 g/7 oz lean boneless pork; 15 cm/6 in piece gobo or 1 parsnip; 2 spring onions (scallions), chopped; 5 ml/1 tsp sesame seeds; 70 ml/4½ tbsp miso; 600 ml/1 pint/2½ cups second dashi stock, or the same amount of water and 10 ml/2 tsp dashi-no-moto; a little sesame oil, for stir-frying; ½ konnyaku or ½ x 225-285 g/8-10¼ oz packet tofu; 50 g/2 oz daikon; 4 fresh shiitake mushrooms

Tanuki Jiru

Preparation info

Serves
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Japanese Cookbook

By Emi Kazuko and Yasuko Fukuoka

Published 2024

About

This is quite a rich and filling soup. Its Japanese name, Tanuki Jiru, means raccoon soup for hunters, but as raccoons are not eaten nowadays, pork is now used.

Ingredients

200 g/7 oz lean boneless pork
15 cm/6

Asia
Japan
Soup

Method

Press the meat down on a chopping board using the palm of your hand and slice horizontally into very thin long strips, then cut the strips crossways into stamp-size pieces. Set the pork aside.
Peel the gobo using a potato peeler, then cut dia