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Great recipe for Easy Pork Shoulder Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Leeks. I created this easy and delicious dish without using string, parboiling, and with the minimum amount of seasoning. Cutting the meat into bite-size pieces at the beginning removes the need to slice it at the end.
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Simple Way to Make Easy Pork Shoulder Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Leeks
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy pork shoulder kakuni (simmered pork cubes) with leeks using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
Ingredients
The ingredients needed to make Easy Pork Shoulder Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Leeks:
- Prepare 500 grams Pork shoulder loin
- Make ready 2 Japanese leeks (thick ones)
- Make ready 1 thumb Ginger
- Make ready 50 ml each ☆Sake, soy sauce, water
- Prepare 1 tbsp each ☆Sugar, mirin
- Make ready 1 Salt and pepper
Pork belly has a lot of fat but that's where all the flavour is. However, by cooking the pork belly for a long time, much of the fat melts away and the fat that remains is really tender so the finished dish does not taste fatty. The pork used for Kakuni is the belly with a lot of layered fat. Some people steer away from the dish just because of the amount of fat content, however, a lot of it is removed in the process of boiling the meat in water for hours.
Instructions
Steps to make Easy Pork Shoulder Kakuni (Simmered Pork Cubes) with Leeks:
- Cut the leeks diagonally.
- Chop the pork shoulder loin into large bite-size pieces (2 bite-size?) Sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides.
- Brown the surface in a pan.
- Transfer to a pot, and add sliced ginger.
- Put leeks on top, pour the ☆ ingredients, and turn on the heat. Bring to a boil.
- Cover with a lid, and simmer for 20 ~ 30 minutes over low heat. Take off the lid, and continue simmering until the liquid is reduced by 1/2, then it's done♪
- Garnish with the white part of the Japanese leeks.
By boiling for so long, the pork becomes very soft and falls apart very easily, and that's the part a lot of. Pork shoulder is the primal cut that comes from—you guessed it—a pig's shoulder, above the forelegs. The National Pork Board calls it "the top portion of the front leg of the hog." It's typically broken down into two cuts: the top, or blade shoulder (aka Boston butt), and the lower, arm shoulder (aka pork shoulder or picnic roast). Slow cooked pork belly in soy sauce glaze, Kakuni (Japanese Braised Pork Belly) is literally melt-in-your-mouth delicious. So good with rice and egg on the side.
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