Japanese Style Slow-cooked Pork

Posted January 31st, 2011 in Food No Comments »

Suddenly I had a craving for Japanese style char siu (yakibuta). It’s quite different from those Chinese style char siu – Japanese one tastes more like ham. I like eating yakibuta with Japanese mayonnaise, and that’s what I had in my mind when I was making this dish. It turned out, not exactly what I expected it to be, but it tasted great anyway and is a perfect meat dish to be served with simple steamed rice.

I served this slow-cooked pork dish with carrot rice – which is a simple steamed rice with grated carrot. The rice doesn’t taste like carrot, but it boosts the nutrition.

To make this dish, you need an oven. What you do is just marinate the pork in the sauce and cook in the oven – very easy. You can use any part of pork for this dish: this time I used pork thigh.

300g pork meat
40ml soy sauce
20ml sake (cooking wine)
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tsp grated ginger
40g sugar
3cm spring onion
1 tbs white sesame seeds

Marinate the pork in the sauce (mixture of all the ingredients) overnight.
Pre-heat oven to 200°.
Place aluminium-foil on an oven tray, bending the edge high so that all the marinade sauce can go inside. Place the pork and marinade sauce in the foil, and close the top. You can also use 2 pieces of aluminium-foil : one to keep the pork and marinade sauce, and another to cover up the pork and sauce.
Cook the pork in the oven for 45 minutes.
Leave the pork for at least 10 minutes before slicing.
Serve with steamed rice and your choice of vegetables (or salad).