Buta no Kakuni (Braised Pork Belly)

Name: Buta no Kakuni (Braised Pork Belly)
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 800 g Pork belly, in large cubes; 1 thumb Ginger, sliced; 1 Green part of a long onion; 240 ml Sake; 4 tbsp Soy sauce; 3 / 2 tbsp Sugar and mirin; 4 Soft-boiled eggs (optional); to garnish Blanched greens and karashi, to serve

Cubes of pork belly simmered for hours in soy, sake and ginger until the fat turns to silk and a chopstick slides clean through.

မူလအရင်းအမြစ်

ချက်ပြုတ်နည်း — Japanese home kitchens · 🏠 Home cook

Nagasaki / Kyushu — Japanese-Chinese / 長崎・九州の卓袱料理 — Kakuni comes from Kyushu, especially Nagasaki, where centuries of trade with China left a lasting mark on the local table. It is widely regarded as a Japanese adaptation of the Chinese Dongpo pork, folded into Nagasaki's shippoku banquet cuisine.

Wikipedia တွင် နောက်ခံအချက်အလက် ↗

ချက်နေပုံ ကြည့်ရန် · ဗီဒီယို 3 ခု

It's Just Gohan [Haruma Recipe]Japanese Food Recipes in English Yoshihiro Fujiwara

⏱ 180 မိနစ်🍽 4 ယောက်စာ🔥 520 kcal🇯🇵 Japan

နို့ထွက်ပစ္စည်းကင်း

ပါဝင်ပစ္စည်းများ

ယောက်စာ

🛒 ပါဝင်ပစ္စည်းများ ဝယ်ရန်

မီးဖိုချောင်တွင် အမြဲရှိသည်များကို ချန်ထားသည် — အမှန်တကယ် ဝယ်ရမည့်အရာများသာ။

★ သည် ရှာရခက်သည် သို့မဟုတ် အစားထိုး၍ မရဟု ချက်ပြုတ်နည်းက ဆိုသော ပါဝင်ပစ္စည်းကို ပြသည်။

အဆင့်များ

Sear the pork cubes in a dry pot on all sides to render surface fat and deepen the flavour.
Cover with water, add the ginger and onion greens, and boil gently for an hour to render fat and tenderise.
💡 This first plain boil melts away excess grease so the finished dish is rich but not heavy.
Discard the boiling water and aromatics and rinse the pork to wash off the scum.
Return the pork to a clean pot with the sake, soy, sugar and mirin plus water to just cover.
Set a drop-lid on top and simmer very gently for 60–90 minutes until fork-tender and glossy.
Add peeled soft-boiled eggs in the last 20 minutes to steep, then serve with greens and a dot of karashi.

💡 အကြံပြုချက်များ

Chill the braise overnight and lift off the set fat for a cleaner, lighter sauce.
Keep the simmer at a whisper — a hard boil makes the meat tighten instead of melting.
Leftover braising liquid is superb ladled over rice or ramen.