Ginger Pork Don

Name: Ginger Pork Don (Buta No Shougayaki Don)
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: Koikuchi soy sauce 65 ml (2⅕ fl oz); Old ginger 30 g (1 oz), grated; Shredded cabbage for garnishing; Sliced Japanese cucumber for garnishing; Vegetable oil for frying; Pork loin or shoulder 300 g (10½ oz), cut into 4 mm (¼ in) thick slices; Yellow onion 1, peeled and both ends trimmed; Mirin 45 ml (1½ fl oz); Johakuto sugar 1½ Tbsp; Steamed rice 400 g (14 oz); Ginger juice 1 Tbsp; Sake 2 Tbsp

Buta No Shougayaki Don

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Donburi

By Aki Watanabe

Published 2022

About

This is a typical Japanese home-style dish. Grated ginger not only tenderises the meat and removes any pungent smell from pork, it also gives a wonderful taste to the meat. There are no words to describe just how much I love this dish.

Ingredients

Ginger juice 1 Tbsp
Sake 2 Tbsp
Pork loin or shoulder

Asia
Japan
Lunch
Main course

Method

Mix ginger juice and sake. Marinate pork slices in the mixture for 5 minutes.
Mix all sauce ingredients together. Set aside.
Slice onion very thinly and parallel to the lines so that you get thin strips.
Heat oil in a pan over medium heat. Stir-fry onion until half translucent. Remove from heat and set aside.
Briefly marinate pork in