Recipe 2 - Pork Miso Soup

Pork Miso Soup is the second recipe in Sweetness and Lightning.

Ingredients

Serves 3-4

• 7 cm daikon radish
• 1/2 carrot
• 1/2 green onion
• 1/3 burdock root
• 1 potato
• 150 g pork (brisket)
• 1/2 block konnyaku
• 9 snow pea pods
• 1 pouch fried tofu
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 800 ml dashi stock
• 4 tbsp miso

Steps

1. Cut the carrots and diakon radish into quarter rounds, then cut the green onion into 1 cm slices. Chop the burdock root in thin diagonal slices and place in cold water. Cut the potatoes and pork into bite-sized pieces. Tear the konnyaku into bite-sized chunks and then parboil. Parboil the snow peas and the fried tofu. Drain.
2. Put the sesame oil into the pot and stir-fry the pork on medium heat. Add and fry the ingredients in this order: carrots, burdock root, daikon radish, potatoes, konnyaku. Once the edges of the potatoes become translucent, add in the dashi stock.
   • You can boil the ingredients instead of frying. The taste will be lighter.
3. Once it starts boiling, skim off the scum that forms on top. Simmer on low heat for 7-8 minutes, then add the green onion and fried tofu.
4. Once the ingredients are softened, add the miso by dissolving it gradually into the stock. Once it starts boiling again, immediately turn off the heat and add the snow peas.