豚汁 (Tonjiru / Butajiru)
Tonjiru / Butajiru
- とんじる ・ぶたじる
- Tonjiru / Butajiru
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- soups and stews
Meaning
豚汁 (とんじる ・ぶたじる, Tonjiru / Butajiru) is Tonjiru / Butajiru, a Japanese food (soups and stews).
What is Tonjiru / Butajiru?
Tonjiru or butajiru , both literally meaning "pork soup", is a Japanese soup made with pork and vegetables, flavoured with miso . Compared to normal miso soup, tonjiru tends 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 stock, and flavored by dissolving miso. Common additional ingredients include burdock root, konjac, seaweed, spring onions, daikon radish, carrot, tofu, including fried tofu ( abura-age ), tubers such as potatoes, taro or sweet potato, and mushrooms such as shītake and shimeji . The Chinese character for pig (豚) can be pronounced either as " buta " or as " ton " in Japanese. The name butajiru is said to be dominant in Western Japan and Hokkaidō, while the name tonjiru is said to be more common in Eastern Japan.