🍲 Gojiru (Soybean Miso Soup with Vegetables in Season)

In Gunma, where farm products are grown a lot, many soybeans with rich flavor are cultivated. The prefecture is making efforts to improve the quality of soy beans by establishing ‘Kabura Soybean Producers Council' to instruct about soybean production management, or to produce new species called ‘Sato no Hohoemi'. The dish which has been eaten since long ago in Gunma, boast of tasty soybean production, is ‘gojiru', a miso soup with mashed soybeans. It is called ‘gojiru' because they call mashed soybean ‘go'. Soybeans is called ‘meat from the field', and it's nutritious. It was often used during the food shortage like meat or fish. In addition, plenty of vegetables in season are cooked in ‘gojiru', it was a popular as a nutritious local food.