Buta No Kakuni (Braised Pork Belly)

/ Daiki Ichiyama

• 11 February 2024
• recipe,
• pork,
• side,
• asian,
• japanese

Ingredients

• Pork belly
• Ginger
• Spring onion
• ¼ Cup Soy sauce
• ¼ Cup Sugar
• 3 Tbsp Mirin
• ¼ Cup Sake
• 2½ Cups dashi

Instructions

1. Remove skin off the pork belly
2. Cut pork belly into squares
3. Quickly brown all sides of the pork belly on a frying pan with high heat
4. Slice ginger with skin on
5. Cut spring onion so it fits into a dutch oven / pot
6. Fill dutch oven with pork belly, spring onion and half the sliced ginger
7. Fill dutch over with water to cover the pork belly and boil
8. Simmer for 1 hours and remove scum off the top
9. Drain water out of the dutch oven and remove the spring onion and ginger
10. Fill dutch oven with dashi to cover the pork belly
11. Add soy sauce, sugar, mirin, sake, and the rest of the ginger
12. Simmer low/med heat for 2 hours