Japanese braised pork belly

Naomi
Naomi @butterrice
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Ingredients

  1. 2 tablespoonsugar
  2. 450 grampork belly
  3. 100 gramsoy sauce
  4. 80 gramcooking wine
  5. 4 piecegarlic
  6. 10 gramginger
  7. 10 gramspring onion
  8. 2star anise(optional)
  9. 1cinnamon stick(optional)
  10. Sichuan pepper (optional)
  11. Fennel seed(optional)

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

  3. 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. 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. 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. 6

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

  7. 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 ❤️

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I was born and bred in Taiwan. Moved to Barcelona 2 years ago. Recreating authentic Taiwanese food is now the best cure of my homesickness ❤️
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