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Japanese slow cooked Pork Belly

Prep Time:

25 Minutes

Cook Time:

150 Minutes

Serves:

4 Servings

Level:

Intermediate

About the Recipe

Slow cooked pork belly dishes abound but I honestly have never found one to better this. Even better, cook this in a pressure cooker and it isn't even slow - you can have it read in under an hour! The taste is all about the sauce, of course - in this case, a combination of sake, soy sauce and mirin spiced with a little stem ginger that raises the taste of this dish above the rank and file - do you have any doubts/ Just try this recipe and see...

Ingredients

1 kg boneless pork belly


400g white radish


2 spring onions


2cm piece of ginger


700ml water


100ml soy sauce


100ml cooking sake


70ml mirin


5 tbsps sugar

Preparation

cut the radish into 4 pieces and then halve each piece


top and tail the spring onion


cut the pork belly into 8 chunks


peel the ginger and halve


parboil the pork belly for 1 - 2 mins to remove any impurities


put the water, soy sauce, mirin and cooking sake in a pressure cooker or saucepan and bring to the boil


add the pork, radish and spring onions and simmer for 45 mins (pressure cooker) or 2 - 2.5 hours (saucepan)


rest for 15 mins (or overnight for a richer flavour)


serve with bowl of Japanese rice

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