Pork Miso Soup

About The Soup

A miso soup usually gets be a side dish in Japanese cuisine, but this pork miso soup is a main dish　because made with pork belly. You can take lots of fiber and vitamins from many kinds of vegetables in the soup. And miso also is rich in vitamins and minerals. The taste of miso soup is different depends on using what kind of miso. Various miso are available at some supermarkets. So find your favorite one and use it freely.

Time and Calorific Value

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Serving: 3 (large soup bowls)

Calorific Value (per serving):

• Energy: 307kcal
• Protein: 12g
• Carbs: 30g
• Fats: 19g
• Fiber: 10g
• Sodium: 1900mg

Let’s prepare!

Tools:

• a soup pot (about 18cm in diameter)
• ladle
• measuring spoons (TBSP/TSP)
• measuring cup

Ingredients:

• 1 and half thick slices (150g) Pork belly
• 1 (100g) carrot, cut into half-moon slices
• 2/3 (200g) white radish, cut into quarter-rounds
• 2 medium (220g) potatoes, peeled and roll-cut
• 1/2 (100g) onion, cut into thin slices
• 5 mushrooms, cut into three slices
• 2/3 (70g) leek, diagonal cut
• 1 tsp oil
• 400ml water
• 2 tbsp miso
• 1 tbsp mirin
• spring onion, chopped, and garnish

Instructions

1. Heat oil into a pot and bake pork belly. Take them out when they are cooked mostly.
2. Add carrot, white radish, potatoes and mushrooms, and then stir-fry them.
3. Add water to the pot. When it begins to boil on medium heat, put pork belly back to the pot. Turn down to low heat and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes.
4. Add leek and 1 tbsp mirin, and simmer only for a minute. Melt 2 tbsp miso into the pot. if the taste is good, remove to the heat.
5. Serve soup in each bowls, and garnish chopped spring onion.

Notes

• Change kinds of vegetable depends on where you live.
• Do not keep simmering miso on high heat because its flavor is lost.