Chashu (Braised Pork Belly)
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5.0
3 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
5 mins
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Cook Time
5 mins
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Servings
8
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Course
Main Course
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Cuisine
Japanese
Chashu (Braised Pork Belly)
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This recipe requires stove-top high pressure cooker
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Ingredients
- 500 grams pork belly rind removed, cut into 2 to 4 pieces in order to fill in cooker
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1 thumb ginger sliced (3cm in length, 1cm in diameter)
- 4-5 green onion white part (or 1 stalk scallion)
- 150 ml water
- 100 ml Chinese cooking wine
- 100 ml soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 piece of cinnamon stick 5cm in length, 1.5cm in width
Instructions
- Rub the pork belly with salt. Heat oil in a non-sticky skillet with medium high heat, add pork belly and brown each side till turning golden.
- Add pork and the rest of ingredients in pressure cooker. Place drop lid on the pork. Lock the lid on pressure cooker, cook on medium high heat till pressure turned high, immediately turn the heat to lowest. Simmer for 20 minutes. Turn off heat and release pressure by nature release method, in about 20 minutes.
- Put pork into a plate to cool down before cutting. The pork will taste better if making beforehand and let the flavor settle down for overnight.
Notes
- After the pork totally cooled down, put each chunk of pork in separate ziploc and store in freezer up to 1 month.
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