DISH RESEARCH · Soup
Satsuma Jiru
Also known as: Satsuma-jiru, 薩摩汁
The Kagoshima School Dietitians Association recipe published by MAFF makes satsuma jiru with chicken thighs, root vegetables, konnyaku and fried tofu in its own shiitake-water broth seasoned with barley miso, brown sugar and sake.
About Satsuma Jiru
Research draft based on the references below. These notes describe particular recipes and presentations; ingredient connections are still being reviewed.
The Kagoshima School Dietitians Association recipe published by MAFF presents satsuma jiru as a chicken-and-vegetable miso soup. Its selected pot includes root vegetables, konnyaku and nama-age, thick fried tofu.
Dried shiitake are washed and rehydrated, with their soaking water retained for the broth. The ingredient list combines that same mushroom stock with an additional water portion.
Oil starts the sauté with small chicken-thigh pieces and shiitake, then konnyaku, burdock, carrot and daikon are added in order. The source leaves the oil’s identity unspecified.
The same broth joins the pot with taro and diced fried tofu. Once the vegetables are cooked, barley miso, brown sugar and sake season the soup, with green onion added after serving it into bowls.
The entry describes this substantial soup in winter eating as well as year-round home preparation. It also identifies school meals, home-economics classes and local events as ways the dish continues to be shared.
Ingredients in Satsuma Jiru
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- Carrotbase
- Burdock Rootbase
- Konjacbase
- Shiitake mushroombase
- Misoseasoning
- Dashi stockcooking medium
- Watercooking medium
- Tofubase
- Daikon radishbase
- Chickenprotein
- Green oniongarnish
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Kagoshima / School Dietitians Association satsuma jiru