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Pork Belly, Easy Chashu - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Pork Belly, Easy Chashu.
This is an introduction to an easy char siu (chashu) that can be made by rolling pork belly. You can make it very easily. It is voluminous, so how about having it as another dish for tonight? Please take this opportunity to make it.
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Cook time

40 minutes

Ingredients
2 servings

  • Pork belly
    12 sheets
  • Salt and pepper mix
    2 three finger pinches
  • Starch
    1 tbsp
  • Salad oil
    2 tsp
  • Sauce
  • Cooking sake
    60 ml
  • Soy sauce
    50 ml
  • Japanese sweet cooking wine (Mirin)
    30 ml
  • Sugar
    1 tbsp
  • Grated garlic
    1/2 tsp
  • Grated ginger
    1/2 tsp
  • Young green onion (Konegi)
    as needed

How to make

  1. 1. Sprinkle salt and pepper mix on pork belly and leave for about 5 minutes.
  2. 2. Lay out 3 slices of it with about 0.4-inch sticking to each other, sprinkle starch with a tea strainer, and roll.
  3. 3. Lay out 3 slices of Step 1, sticking 0.4-inch to each other, sprinkle with starch, place Step 2 on it and roll. Make another one in the same way.
  4. 4. Heat cooking oil in a pan over medium heat, place Step 3 roll side down and cook until browned, then roll it to cook until browned on all sides, wiping off excess fat with a paper towel.
  5. 5. Heat cooking sake in the pan over medium heat, cover with a lid, and cook over low heat for about 10 minutes until the center is cooked through, then add the remaining sauce ingredients and heat over medium heat. Remove from the heat when the sauce is blended.
  6. 6. When it cools down, cut it into 0.4-inch pieces, serve on a plate, sprinkle with young green onion (konegi), and it's ready to serve.

Tips for cooking

Please adjust the seasoning to your liking. By sprinkling starch on it, it won't crumble easily and will be easy to handle.

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