Recipe of Great Monk’s Vegan Soup ‘Kenchin-jiru’ Cooking Basics for Newbies

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Kenchinjiru (けんちん汁) is a hearty plant-based Japanese soup that's made with a vegan shiitake mushroom and konbu stock. Loaded with veggies and protein, it's a delicious one-pot meal that will take the chill out of even the coldest of days. Kenchinjiru (けんちん汁) is a Vegan Japanese Soup recipe that's made with a plant-based shiitake and konbu dashi stock. This savory vegan dashi is loaded with.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have monk’s vegan soup ‘kenchin-jiru’ using 16 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Monk’s Vegan Soup ‘Kenchin-jiru’:

1. Prepare 1-2 teaspoons Sesame Oil
2. Make ready 1/2 Carrot
3. Prepare 5 cm Daikon (White Radish)
4. Make ready 4-5 Satoimo (small Taros) *OR 1 large Potato
5. Take 10 cm Gobo (Burdock Root) *optional
6. Prepare 1 pinch Salt
7. Prepare 4 tablespoons Soy Sauce
8. Make ready Ground Chilli OR finely ground White Pepper *optional
9. Take 200 g Tofu *medium firm type such as ‘Momen’
10. Make ready 1 sheet Abura-age (Fried Thin Tofu)
11. Prepare 3 & 1/2 cups Water
12. Take 1 Spring Onion *finely shopped
13. Make ready 10 cm Kombu (Kelp)
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15. Take 4-5 Dried Shiitake
16. Take *Note: You can use 1 heaped teaspoon Dashi Powder instead

Root vegetables and tofu are sautéed and cooked in flavoured dashi broth. But 'kenchin' doesn't mean vegetable and even for Japanese, 'kenchin' is a strange name and the sound is so unlike Japanese. This is based on a Buddhist vegetarian recipe and can either be made with miso, or with soy sauce and salt. My mother always made a version with pork and miso, but recently I've taken to this vegan version because you can really taste all the wonderful vegetables.

Steps to make Monk’s Vegan Soup ‘Kenchin-jiru’:

1. Prepare the stock first. Place cold Water in a bowl, add cleaned Kombu (Kelp) and Dried Shiitake, and soak for at least 1-2 hours. Softened Shiitake can be cut into small pieces and added to the soup later.
2. *Note: Do not add the softened Kombu to the soup. Kombu will get slimy and unpleasant flavour will come out. Use it for something else.
3. Cut all Vegetables and Tofu into small pieces that are easy to eat. Finely cut Spring Onion for topping.
4. Heat Sesame Oil in a large saucepan or pot, stir-fry Vegetables for a few minutes. Add 1 pinch Salt to season.
5. Add 3 cups Kombu (Kelp) and Shiitake stock. (*Avoid the dirt and settlings.) Bring to the simmer and cook for 10 minutes. Season with Soy Sauce and cook until all vegetables are soft.
6. *Note: I add 1 pinch Ground Chilli OR White Pepper for a hint of spiciness. This is totally untraditional, but I like it.
7. When Vegetables are soft, add Abura-age (Fried Thin Tofu) and Tofu, and bring back to the boil. Then it’s done!
8. Sprinkle with finely chopped Spring Onion and enjoy.

This is based on a Buddhist vegetarian recipe and can either be made with miso, or with soy sauce and salt. My mother always made a version with pork and miso, but recently I've taken to this vegan version because you can really taste all the wonderful vegetables. Enjoy this soothing soup inspired by an old recipe from a famous Japanese Buddhist temple. Stir green onions into soup and remove from heat. Pass seven spice powder or sansho at table.

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