Buta no Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Coke
Buta no Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Coke

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Buta-no-kakuni is a classic Japanese dish of braised pork belly that is slowly cooked until the meat is tender, juicy, and packed full of umami. Buta no Kakuni (豚の角煮) is a Japanese dish made with pork belly simmered in soy sauce and dashi until it's melt-in-your-mouth tender. Buta no Kakuni (豚の角煮) which literally translates to "pork cut square and simmered" is the way that pork belly is most often prepared in Japan.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook buta no kakuni (simmered pork cubes) with coke using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Buta no Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Coke:
  1. Get 500 grams Pork belly block
  2. Take 500 ml ☆Coke
  3. Get 5 pieces ☆Ginger (with skin and thin sliced)
  4. Take 1 ☆Green part of Japanese leek
  5. Get 1 ☆Star anise (Optional)
  6. Get 2 tbsp ★Soy sauce
  7. Make ready 1 tbsp ★Oyster sauce
  8. Get 1 Water
  9. Get 1 Japanese mustard
  10. Prepare 1 Daikon radish (2 cm thick half moons or round slices)

Kakuni (Japanese Braised Pork Belly) - Slow cooked pork belly in soy sauce glaze, serve with shiraga negi and egg on the side. Kakuni (角煮) is Japanese braised pork belly, and it literary means "square simmered" referring to the shape of this dish. I'm not usually into fatty meat but there is. Buta-no-kakuni is a classic Japanese dish of braised pork belly that is slowly cooked until the meat is tender, juicy, and packed full of umami.

Steps to make Buta no Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Coke:
  1. Cut the pork into bite size pieces and place them fat side down onto a pan without oil.
  2. Sear the pork evenly until golden brown all around.
  3. Drain excess oil from the pan with paper towels.
  4. Put the pork and ingredients marked ☆ into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Then turn the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes!
  5. Add the ingredients marked ★ and continue simmering for another 20 - 30 minutes! If the sauce reduces too low, add a little extra water little by little.
  6. Add the daikon radish and simmer for 10 - 20 minutes more!
  7. Serve with Japanese mustard as you like.

Give Japanese buta-no-kakuni a try, and you might be pleasantly surprised at how a small, tender piece of braised pork belly brightens up the dinner table. Place pork in a stockpot with rice, cover with water and bring to the boil. Remove pork, discard water and rice, and rinse pork. And in buta no kakuni the bacon, I mean belly, comes in big chunks of layers of meat and It's definitely a cold weather dish. Japanese braised pork belly (Buta no kakuni, 豚の角豚の角煮).

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