Simple Simmered Daikon Radish & Pork Belly. The daikon radish, simmered with juicy chicken and a touch of citrus yuzu sauce, tastes sweet, light, and refreshing. This dish is not only easy to make but also pack with many health benefits. If you are not able to get daikon or yuzu, I'll show you the perfect substitute to enjoy this dish.
It's made of daikon radish that has been peeled and sliced, and then simmered a savory dashi broth for an hour.
The daikon pieces get so tender and soak up all the dashi flavor.
It's an incredibly flavorful dish, and yet so unassuming looking.
You can have Simple Simmered Daikon Radish & Pork Belly using 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Simple Simmered Daikon Radish & Pork Belly
- It's 120 grams of Thinly sliced pork belly.
- It's 600 grams of Daikon radish.
- Prepare 300 ml of Water.
- It's 1 tsp of Dashi stock granules.
- You need 1 dash of Sesame oil.
- You need 2 tbsp of ●Soy sauce.
- You need 2 tbsp of ●Sake.
- Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp of ●Mirin.
- You need 1 tbsp of ●Sugar.
Place Daikon in a saucepan, add water just enough to cover and add Dashi Powder. You can use your home-made dashi stock for this. Add seasoning ingredients and bring to the boil. (Thinly sliced Ginger, Chilli can be added if you like.) To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. Here is how you cook it.
Simple Simmered Daikon Radish & Pork Belly instructions
- Peel the daikon radish and cut into 1.5 cm thick semi-circles. Add them to a heat-resistant container along with some water, wrap with cling film, and heat for 6 minutes in the microwave..
- Cut the pork belly into 3 cm wide pieces. If you're making this recipe using dashi soup stock please refer to https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/143313-basic-dashi-stock-for-the-first-pressing.
- Add the daikon radish to a hot frying pan and stir-fry until the excess water has evaporated off. Add in the sesame oil and stir-fry the daikon radish until it browns..
- Add in some more oil around the edge of the daikon radish chunks and stir-fry the pork belly. Once the pork has started to change colour, add the dashi stock granules and the ● ingredients..
- Boil the mixture over strong heat. Once boiled, turn down to low-medium, cover with an aluminium foil lid and simmer for 20-25 minutes..
- Once most of the simmering liquid has evaporated, turn the heat up to strong and glaze the daikon radish and pork belly with the sauce..
- Please refer tofor further instructions on how to parboil the daikon radish. https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/143402-parboil-daikon-in-the-microwave.
There are many variations, but this is the basic recipe for this rustic di. Roughly chop up the Japanese long onion into bite-size pieces. Cook both sides until browned and remove. Daikon (white radish) is the hero of this Simmered Daikon recipe. It is just a daikon cooked in a light soy-based broth.
