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Pork Belly Recipe (Butadon)

September 22, 2020 (last updated March 19, 2021)

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Butadon (Japanese pork belly recipe) is made with homemade teriyaki sauce.

Although pork belly is widely eaten in the Eastern Asia, I used to not like the pork belly that much and didn’t bothered to use it in creating a recipe. Time flows and your taste changes. I began to appreciate the flavor and the texture of pork belly. I am looking forward to make more dishes with pork belly now.

Pork Belly Butadon

Butadon is Japanese pork and rice bowl. Thinly sliced pork butt is most commonly used in Butadon dishes. The pork slices pan fried, then coated with the delicious teriyaki sauce. Pork belly makes great Butadon as well. You will love the crisp outside yet soft meaty texture inside. Some likes to add sliced onions to the pork during the cooking. I like mince separate.

It is so nice to serve Butadon bowl with an poached egg on top, although I used just a fresh egg yolk on mine to make my life easier. You can serve as is, that would be the one dish meal itself. Or serve with deep green vegetable on the side, and you’ve got a lovely combo meal to indulge.

Homemade Teriyaki Sauce

Homemade Teriyaki sauce is not difficult at all and it is so much better and tastier than the store bought. You will need the following ingredients .

  • Soy sauce
  • Tsuyu (Japanese soup base sauce)
  • Sake (Japanese rice wine)
  • Mirin (sweet rice wine)
  • Honey
  • Garlic
  • Ginger

Sake is an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran. The alcohol content is about 14-16%.  Mirin is similar to sake, but has more sugar and a lower alcohol content (14% or below)

Teriyaki pork belly is served with rice and an egg yolk in a bowl

Butadon, Japanese pork rice bow, made with pork belly

Butadon Pork Belly Recipe

Holly Ford
A delicious pork belly recipe to create Butadon (Japanese pork and rice bowl) with a quick and easy homemade Teriyaki sauce.
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Prep Time 5 mins
Cook Time 25 mins
Total Time 30 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Asian, Japanese
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 1 lb pork belly cut into bite size pieces
  • 1 tbsp oil
  • 1 onion sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic smashed
  • 3 thin slices of ginger
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp tsuyu
  • 3 tbsp sake
  • 3 tbsp sweet rice wine (mirim)
  • 2 tbsp honey
  • cooked white rice
  • 2 green onion finely chopped
  • 4 egg yolks for serving optional

Instructions
 

  • In a small pot, mix together soy sauce, tsuyu, sake, sweet rice wine, and honey. Add the garlic, ginger and bring to boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Discard the garlic and ginger; set aside.
  • Heat oil in a large heavy bottom skillet over med-high heat. Add the onion and cook until they are just softened, about 2-3 minutes. Transfer to another plate; set aside.
  • Add the pork belly to the hot skillet and let them sear for 1-2 minute, then turn to the other side and cook for another 1 minute.
  • Pour the sauce over pork belly and let the sauce bubble. Reduce the sauce until it thickens, about 2-3 minutes. Remove from the heat.
  • To serve, put individual serving amount of rice in each bowl, put some onion and pork belly over the rice. Sprinkle with chopped green onion and top with an egg yolk. Serve immediately.

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Notes

To make sure this recipe to be gluten-free, use gluten-free soy sauce and tsuyu.
Keyword butadon, butadon pork belly recipe, gluten-free, japanese pork rice bowl, Japanese sauce, pork, pork belly, pork belly recipe, quick, rice bowl, rice bowl recipes, teriyaki, teriyaki sauce, tsuyu
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Comments

  1. kitchenriffs says

    September 23, 2020 at 12:07 pm

    Pork belly is good stuff. Don’t have it that often (so fatty!), but love it when I do. This looks like a terrific way to use it — thanks.

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  2. Dimitri Komarov says

    December 17, 2020 at 8:43 am

    This is such a great pork belly recipe, one of the best I have come across. Thank you for sharing this, can’t wait to try it.

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