Homemade Japanese Chashu (Braised Pork)
Homemade Japanese Chashu (Braised Pork)

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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook homemade japanese chashu (braised pork) using 14 ingredients and 24 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Japanese Chashu (Braised Pork):
  1. Get Meat
  2. Take 1 KG Square slice of Pork Belly
  3. Make ready 3 TBSP Cooking Oil
  4. Take Marinating Sauce
  5. Prepare 1 Cup Dark Soy Sauce
  6. Prepare 1/2 Cup Brown Sugar
  7. Get 1/2 Cup Sake
  8. Take 3 Cups Water
  9. Take 3 Stalks Spring Onions
  10. Take 20 G Ginger
  11. Prepare 2 Cloves Garlic
  12. Get Others
  13. Make ready 1 Ball of Cotton String
  14. Get Salt
Instructions to make Homemade Japanese Chashu (Braised Pork):
  1. Rough cut ginger with skin on
  2. Cut spring onions into halves
  3. De-skin garlic
  4. Add all marinating sauce ingredients into a saucepan
  5. Bring it to boil, stir and turn the heat off immediately
  6. Use coarse salt to clean & exfoliate meat
  7. Rinse the salt off with clean water
  8. Roll pork belly into a log
  9. Tie up rolled pork belly
  10. Pan-fry rolled pork belly for 2 mins per side until it's golden brown
  11. Put fried rolled pork into boiling water for 1 hour
  12. Remove pork belly from boiling water
  13. Pour marinating sauce into a shallow pan deep enough for your pork
  14. Heat up marinating sauce to boil
  15. Once it's boiling, turn the heat down to the lowest
  16. Add pork into pan and cover it with a drop lid or seal it with an aluminium foil, and make a small hole in the middle.
  17. Braise each side for half an hour (Total 2 hours)
  18. Transfer braised pork into a ziplock bag
  19. Use a strainer and strain remaining sauce into the ziplock bag
  20. Squeeze the air out and seal it tight
  21. Store it in the refrigerator overnight or 24 hours to marinate
  22. Remove braised pork from the ziplock bag
  23. Slice it thinly
  24. You may choose to blowtorch or pan-fry it to bring out the smokey taste.

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