Soup Curry (Sapporo's Brothy Spice-Bowl with Blistered Vegetables)

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Soup Curry (Sapporo's Brothy Spice-Bowl with Blistered Vegetables) 🍛

Name: Soup Curry (Sapporo's Brothy Spice-Bowl with Blistered Vegetables)
Prep time: 48 min
Cook time: 72 min
Total time: 120 min
Yield: 2-4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Broth: 1.2 L pork or chicken stock, 200 g minced pork, 2 onions grated, 1 carrot grated; Spice base: 3 tbsp curry powder, 1 tsp each cumin/garlic/ginger paste, 1 star anise, 1 cinnamon stick, 2 dried chilies; Seasoning: 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tbsp oyster sauce; 1 tsp sugar; fish sauce to taste; optional dash of kombu; Vegetables: eggplant chunks, pumpkin wedges, lotus root slices, okra — pan-fried or roasted; 1 chicken leg (nankotsu-mahi style: skin blistered, bone loosened for the fork), rice to serve, fukujin-zuke pickles

Sapporo looked at thick Japanese curry and asked: what if it were a soup instead? Soup curry arrived — a long-simmered pork-and-spice broth, translucent but ferociously aromatic, ladled over rice around an architecture of fried eggplant, pumpkin and lotus root, crowned with a blistered chicken leg. You eat it in layers: broth first, vegetables next, then soak the rice. Spiciness is a menu column from 1 to 10; tourists learn humility at 5.

Hokkaido Japanese ⏱ 120 min Medium

Method

1

Toast curry powder and whole spices dry until fragrant; add garlic-ginger and cumin paste, then the minced pork, breaking it up and browning hard, 8 minutes.
2

Stir in grated onion and carrot; cook down until jammy and dark, another 10 minutes — this is the body of the soup.
3

Pour in stock, add seasonings, simmer 30 minutes loosely. Strain for clarity, or keep rustic; true shops skim the fat back in.
4

Meanwhile roast or pan-fry the vegetables in spiced oil until edges blister. Blister the chicken leg skin-side down until bronzed, cooking through.
5

Reunite broth with a ladle of rice in the bowl. Arrange vegetables and chicken on top like a raft. Eat the broth first, then the vegetables, then collapse the rice into the curry. Chili level: be honest.

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