Simmered Pork Kakuni & Lustrous Daikon Radish
Simmered Pork Kakuni & Lustrous Daikon Radish

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, simmered pork kakuni & lustrous daikon radish. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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If you love pork, you must try this kakuni (角煮, simmered pork belly). The pork is cooked slowly so it is tender and it has a lovely sweet soy sauce flavour, but it does not over power the flavour of pork. Though it requires patience to cook slowly, this is very easy to make.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook simmered pork kakuni & lustrous daikon radish using 8 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Simmered Pork Kakuni & Lustrous Daikon Radish:
  1. Get 600 grams Pork belly (block)
  2. Take 1/2 Daikon radish
  3. Make ready 100 ml ○Sake
  4. Make ready 100 ml ○Water
  5. Prepare 1 thumb ○Ginger (sliced)
  6. Make ready 1 tsp ○Dashi stock granules
  7. Get 3 tbsp Soy sauce
  8. Get 3 tbsp Sugar

I'm not usually into fatty meat but there is something about this dish that I cannot resist. Slow cooking method turns the meat into a delicious creation. Course: Appetizer, Main Course Kakuni is a simmered dish with cubed meat or fish. The word ' kaku ' (角) in this context means diced or cubed and ' ni ' (煮) means simmered.

Steps to make Simmered Pork Kakuni & Lustrous Daikon Radish:
  1. Chop the pork belly into 8 even pieces. Place the skin side down, and cook until golden brown in a heated pan.
  2. Fry the other sides as well.
  3. When they start to brown, wipe the oil with a paper towel.
  4. Pour enough water to cover the meat, bring to a boil, then discard the water.
  5. Add ○ ingredients to the pan, and bring to boil again. Cover with a lid, turn down the heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes.
  6. Add peeled and chopped daikon radish. Bring to a boil again, and turn down the heat to low. Cover with a lid, and simmer for 60 minutes.
  7. Add soy sauce and sugar, and bring to a boil again. Turn down the heat to low, and simmer for 20 minutes.
  8. After simmering, the daikon starts to become translucent and change colour as illustrated in the picture. Skim off the fat and leave in the pan with the lid on.
  9. When the pork belly and daikon become nice and brown, the mild-flavoured pork kakuni is done.
  10. Both pork kakuni and daikon radish have a mild flavour.
  11. If you keep simmering until the sauce is evaporated, the pork kakuni will have a thick and rich flavour.
  12. Remove the daikon radish halfway through to prevent them from crumbling, absorbing too much flavour, or charring.

Because the word kakuni became a synonym for pork kakuni, it is better to use the ingredient name in other meat/fish kakuni. Hence, it's Bonito Kakuni (Simmered Bonito Cubes). Kakuni is a braised pork dish originating from Nagasaki. The name kakuni means square simmered, referring to the typical shape of the dish. In order to prepare it, thick slices of pork belly are slowly simmered in soy sauce, sake, mirin, dashi, and sugar.

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