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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. Japanese Vegetable Soup (Kenchinjiru) was originally a Buddhist dish.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have japanese vegan soup (kenchinjiru) using 11 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese Vegan Soup (Kenchinjiru):

1. Get taros or potatoes
2. Make ready carrot
3. Get daikon raddish
4. Take gobo
5. Make ready green onion
6. Get konnyaku
7. Get tofu
8. Prepare sesame oil
9. Get komb kelp dashi soup stock
10. Prepare Sake
11. Make ready soy sauce

Kenjinjiru or sometimes spelled as Kenchin-jiru ("jiru" means soup in Japanese) derived its name "Kenchin" from "Kencho" - the Zen Buddhist temple, Kencho-ji (建長寺) in Kamakura. Japanese Vegan Soup (Kenchinjiru) Kenchin-jiru is a sort of Buddhist cuisine, Japanese vegetarian or vegan cuisine based on Buddhism. It's soy flavoured Kombu kelp-based soup with many vegetables for ingredients including root vegetables. Basically, no animal-derived foods are used in this soup.

Instructions to make Japanese Vegan Soup (Kenchinjiru):

1. Cut the carrot and the daikon radish into 5 mm thick quarter slice.
2. Peel the taro skin and cut into bite-size chunks.
3. Wash the gobo to remove the soil and cut it into random chunks.
4. Cut the green onion into small pieces.
5. Cut the konnyaku into half and slice into about 5 mm thick. Boil them for about 3 minutes, then drain the water.
6. Cut the tofu into dices.
7. Heat the sesame oil in a pot add the carrot, the daikon radish, the taro, and the gobo and stir-fry over medium-high heat for one minute.
8. Add the konnyaku, the tofu, and the green onion to stir-fry for a few minutes.
9. Pour the dashi broth and sake. Keep heating and simmer until the ingredients are cooked.

However, some people add chicken or pork. Kenchinjiru is a part of Shojin cuisine, vegetarian food for Buddhist monks, and that may be the reason nobody puts any pork or chicken in it. We used regular Dashi with Katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes), but use Kombu only Dashi when you want it to be a true vegetarian dish. Try this healthy but tasty soup on cold nights. My version of kenchinjiru is non-vegetarian as I have used bonito seasoning to make the stock and have also added fish cakes in it.

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