Pork Belly Simmered with Daikon Radish
- 600 grams Pork belly
- 120 ml Sake
- 3 tbsp Mirin
- 2 to 3 tablespoons Sugar
- 5 tbsp Soy sauce
- 600 ml Water
- 1/2 Daikon radish
- 4 Boiled eggs
- Heat up a frying pan without oil and brown the pork on all sides over medium-high heat.
- Add a green onion, ginger and water and cook until a skewer pierces the meat easily (about 1 to 1 1/2 hour, or 15 minutes in a pressure cooker).
- Leave it in the pot until the soup cools, then transfer it to a plastic container and put it in the fridge overnight, if possible.
- Cut up the pork that has chilled overnight (chilling improves the flavor and makes the meat easier to cut).
- If you're in a hurry, cut the meat right away, without chilling.
- Peel the daikon radish, cut it into rounds and shave off the sharp edges, then parboil it.
- Boil the eggs and peel the shells.
- Bring the ingredients to a boil in a pot and add the pork, daikon radish and boiled eggs.
- Bring it to a boil again, and turn down the heat to low.
- Put on an otoshibuta drop lid, or a piece of aluminum foil or kitchen parchment paper with several holes punched in it, on top of the simmering food, and cook for 1-1 1/2 hours.
- It's done when the meat is tender, the sauce has reduced, and the flavor has soaked in.
- The solidified fat is good to use for stir-fries or in gyoza.
- Use the soup from boiling the meat for ramen (it can be frozen).
- It's a matter of preference, but I think this dish tastes better if you flavor it more strongly than you would other simmered dishes.
- Please check out the flavoring of amberjack daikon as a reference for this recipe.
- The taste will come out just right (make it with double the amount of water and flavorings if you are basing on this recipe).
- The daikon radish is boiled in the cloudy water left from washing rice, but you can also cook it in the microwave.
- See
sake, mirin, sugar, soy sauce, water, radish, eggs
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/154452-pork-belly-simmered-with-daikon-radish (may not work)