Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, my granny's kenchin soup with dumplings. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook my granny's kenchin soup with dumplings using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make My Granny's Kenchin Soup with Dumplings:

1. Prepare 100 grams Pork
2. Take 1 packet Taro root
3. Take 15 cm-length Daikon radish
4. Get 1 Carrot
5. Take 1 Burdock
6. Take 3 to 4 Shiitake mushrooms
7. Get 1 Konnyaku
8. Take 1 to required Komatsuna
9. Make ready 200 ml ◎ Flour
10. Get 100 ml ◎ Water
11. Prepare 1 △Japanese dashi stock powder 10 g-sachet
12. Make ready 100 ml △ Soy sauce
13. Prepare 1 as required Vegetable oil

Instructions to make My Granny's Kenchin Soup with Dumplings:

1. Konnyaku is already prepared normally but rub it with salt and rinse to avoid bitterness.
2. Tear the konnyaku into bite-sized pieces. If you get non-prepared one blanch quickly.
3. Peel the taro potatoes and cut the other vegetables into bite-sized. Scrape the burdock peel and slice thinly. Soak in water.
4. Put the flour and water in an air-tight container and mix well.
5. The texture of the dumplings is like this in this photo. Let chill in the fridge.
6. Heat the oil in a pan and fry the pork until nicely browned.
7. Add the vegetables except the komatsuna leaves and fry.
8. After frying pour over water to cover the ingredients in the pan.
9. Add the Japanese dashi stock powder and soy sauce. Turn off the heat.
10. Take out the dumpling batter from the fridge. Drop the batter gently into boiling water.
11. When the dumplings come to the surface they are done. Take out the dumplings from the boiling water and let chill in ice-cold water.
12. Start to heat Step 9 again and add the komatsuna leaves and dumplings to warm through.

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