Simmered Daikon Radish and Pork Belly
Simmered Daikon Radish and Pork Belly

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Here is how to make Simmered Pork Belly and Daikon Radish. It can be made quickly and easily using Pork. Kikkoman Cookbook mainly introduces Japanese dishes using Kikkoman Soy Sauce. Easily search for various recipes for fried, stewed and other foods.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook simmered daikon radish and pork belly using 9 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Simmered Daikon Radish and Pork Belly:
  1. Prepare 2/3 Daikon radish
  2. Make ready 1 10 x 10 cm square Kombu for dashi stock
  3. Take 1 Pork belly block
  4. Prepare 5 thin slices Ginger
  5. Get 4 tbsp Sake
  6. Prepare 3 tbsp Mirin
  7. Take 3 tbsp Sugar
  8. Take 2 tbsp Soy sauce
  9. Make ready 1 Mentsuyu

It's a delicate and flavorful side dish. Slowly simmering the daikon brings out its natural sweetness and highlights the mellowness of this root. While grated raw daikon is often served as a spicy and. The pork belly first gets marinated in a hoisin mixture and then gets wonderfully crisp as it cooks in a cast-iron skillet.

Steps to make Simmered Daikon Radish and Pork Belly:
  1. Peel the daikon radish thickly, and then shave the edges of the slices off. Parboil the daikon radish in the rinsing water from washing rice, or with 1 tablespoon of rice added to plain water.
  2. Parboil for about 20 minutes. When the daikon radish is translucent, drain and rinse. Line the pan with kombu, add fresh water and simmer the daikon radish again.
  3. If you don't have kombu, you can add some mentsuyu to the water and simmer the daikon radish. I didn't have a lot of kombu, so I added both.
  4. Slice the pork belly in to 1 cm thick pieces.
  5. Brown the pork well in a frying pan without adding oil. Wipe away any excess grease or fat that runs out of the meat.
  6. Bring a pan of water to a boil and boil the browned pork to remove more oil (about 5 minutes).
  7. Put the parboiled daikon radish and pork in a deep pot, and add enough water to cover. Then add the sake, mirin, and sugar. Bring to a boil.
  8. When it comes to a boil, turn the heat down to low, add the soy sauce and simmer. I put the pot over a portable stove/heater in the winter to simmer this.
  9. After simmering for about 15 minutes, taste. It's OK if the taste is rather light, but you can adjust by adding mentsuyu if you prefer.
  10. Simmer for as long as you like. You can decide when to stop by looking at the color of the daikon radish. The liquid in the pot should be reduced to about half its original volume.
  11. Bonus: If you cut each 4 cm thick piece of daikon radish into about 6 pieces, it will cook a lot faster. If you do this, reduce the seasoning ingredients to 2 tablespoons each.
  12. Bonus 2: If you don't mind the flavors blending in, use chicken, bacon, fish, atsuage… anything you like.

While grated raw daikon is often served as a spicy and. The pork belly first gets marinated in a hoisin mixture and then gets wonderfully crisp as it cooks in a cast-iron skillet. Let's first pickle some julienned daikon radish and carrots. All you do is throw the veggies into a mason jar and pour in a simmered sugar-vinegar-water mixture. The main dish is cuisine that uses the seasonal root vegetable daikon radish with pork belly Once the pork belly has finished simmering, drain and rinse both the pot and the pork belly.

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