Japanese braised pork belly

Name: Japanese braised pork belly
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 tablespoon sugar; 450 gram pork belly; 100 gram soy sauce; 80 gram cooking wine; 4 piece garlic; 10 gram ginger; 10 gram spring onion; 2 star anise(optional); 1 cinnamon stick(optional); Sichuan pepper (optional); Fennel seed(optional)

Naomi @butterrice

Zurich

Japanese braised pork belly

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Ingredients

2 tablespoonsugar
450 grampork belly
100 gramsoy sauce
80 gramcooking wine
4 piecegarlic
10 gramginger
10 gramspring onion
2star anise(optional)
1cinnamon stick(optional)
Sichuan pepper (optional)
Fennel seed(optional)

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Steps

1

Remove the pork skin then tie the pork belly up to a roll
2

Stir fry the ginger, garlic and spring onion till it’s golden brown.Take it out to wait for next step.
3

Pan-fry the surface of the pork belly until it ‘s golden brown. Put sugar in the pot until it’s caramelized. Coat the pork belly with caramelizad sugar.
4

Put the soy sauce and cooking wine into the pot. Add the ginger. Garlic and onion back into the pot along with the spices (optional)then add 500 grams of water. Boiled in medium fire for 40 mins.
5

Cool down the sauce and pork. Move them into a container where the source could cover the whole pork. Leave it in the fridge overnight
6

Cut the pork into thin slice when it’s cold if you want to use the pork for Ramen topping
7

For pork belly rice bowl, heat up the pork along with sauce. Sprinkle the sauce on top of the pork belly rice bowl. Add any preferred topping. Voilà ❤️