煮豚 : Nibuta

I made "Nibuta" yesterday.


[Recipe]

Ingredients for 4 people:

500g of pork picnic shoulder (block)
1-inch piece of ginger
2 pieces of garlic
1 piece of Japanese green onion (only green part)
2 cups of water
1/2 cup of soy sauce
1/2 cup of Japanese sake
3 big spoons of sugar
3 big spoons of Mirin

1.Tie pork picnic shoulder by kite strings.
Shred ginger and crush garlic.

2.Put pork picnic shoulder in a pot, and pour water till it covers the pork.
Put ginger, garlic, green onion, sake and sugar in the pot, and bring the pot to a boil.

3.When it boils, put soy sauce and cover the pot with a drop lid.
Cook on low heat for 30 minutes, turning upside down in every 10 minutes.

4.Put Mirin in the pot and cook on low hear for another 30 minutes, turning upside down in every 10 minutes.

*Pour water along the way when it's running low.


For a little tip when you make "Nibuta", see my blog dated December 11, 2009.


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