Pork Soup with Sake Lees
- 150 grams Sweet potato
- 150 grams Daikon radish
- 100 grams Carrot
- 1/2 Burdock root
- 100 grams Thinly sliced pork belly
- 1 if you have some Shimeji or other mushrooms
- 50 grams Miso
- 100 grams Sake lees
- 1 tsp Dashi stock granules
- 1000 ml Water
- 1 tsp Usukuchi soy sauce
- 1 if you have some Green onion (topping)
- Cut the daikon and carrot into 2-3 cm long rectangles.
- Cut up the konnyaku in the same way.
- Finely shave the burdock root and soak in a bowl of water.
- Shred the shimeji mushrooms.
- Slice the sweet potato into 5- 10 mm thick pieces and cut the big slices in half.
- Chop up the pork.
- Put the water in a pan and add the dashi stock granules, daikon radish, carrot, burdock root and konnyaku.
- Turn on the heat.
- When it comes to a boil, add the pork.
- Simmer while skimming off the scum occasionally until the vegetables are tender.
- In the meantime, chop up the sake lees roughly and warm in the microwave.
- When everything is cooked through, add the sweet potato and shimeji mushrooms.
- Add the sake lees.
- Simmer until the sweet potato is tender, stirring occasionally.
- Add the miso while tasting.
- Finish by adding the usukuchi soy sauce.
- If you want to make this a sake lees soup without miso, make it with 150 g of sake lees and season with salt and soy sauce.
- Add anythin you'd like, such as salmon offcuts, taro root, turnip, etc.
radish, carrot, burdock root, pork belly, some, lees, granules, water, soy sauce, green onion
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/156455-pork-soup-with-sake-lees (may not work)