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Rice Cooker Butabara Daikon

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Total time
70 min
Serves
4
Cuisine
Japanese
Rice Cooker Butabara Daikon

Ingredients

  • 400-450g pork belly
  • 300-400g daikon (about 700-800g total ingredients)
  • 25g ginger
  • 250-300ml dashi (or 2 tsp dashi granules)
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 2 tbsp mirin
  • 4 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tsp oil (optional, for pan-cooking pork belly)
  • rice
  • soft or hard boiled eggs

Steps

  1. 1

    Peel the skin off the daikon. Cut it in half, then slice into 1-1.5 cm thick moon-shaped pieces.

  2. 2

    Thinly slice the ginger.

  3. 3

    Cut the pork belly into 2 cm thick slices.

  4. 4

    Heat 1 tsp of oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the pork belly and cook to render out some of the fat. Once done, drain the excess oil. You can skip this step and add the pork belly directly to the rice cooker if you prefer, but it will be a bit oilier (you can spoon off the excess fat later).

  5. 5

    Add the daikon, pork belly, ginger, dashi, sugar, mirin, and soy sauce into the rice cooker pot. Set the rice cooker to the “white rice” mode and let it cook. Once the timer goes off, serve and enjoy!

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