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Lots of Sweet Onions - Pork Shabu-Shabu Salad With Ponzu and Japanese Plum (Ume) Sauce - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Lots of Sweet Onions - Pork Shabu-Shabu Salad With Ponzu and Japanese Plum (Ume) Sauce.
This is a pork shabu-shabu salad that brings out the sweetness of sweet onions. Ponzu and Japanese plum (ume) sauce has a light taste, so it is easy to eat without any peculiarities. If you want to add richness, we recommend changing white ground sesame to sesame seed paste or adding a little sesame oil. You can eat lots of vegetables and meat, so please give it a try.
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Cook time

20 minutes

Ingredients
2 servings

  • Pork belly
    150 g
  • Hot water
    500 ml
  • Cooking sake
    50 ml
  • Cold water
    500 ml
  • Sweet onion
    100 g
  • Red-leaf lettuce
    50 g
  • Green shiso leaves
    5 sheets
  • Cherry tomato
    2
  • Ume Ponzu Sauce
  • Ponzu sauce
    4 tbsp
  • Japanese pickled plum paste (Bainiku)
    1 tbsp
  • White ground sesame
    2 tsp
  • Grated ginger
    1 tsp

How to make

  1. Prepare. Remove the stem from the cherry tomatoes and cut them in half.
  2. 1. Roughly chop the red-leaf lettuce.
  3. 2. Thinly slice the sweet onion and shred the green shiso leaves.
  4. 3. Boil a pot of water and add cooking sake, then boil the pork belly for shabu-shabu for about 2 minutes until cooked through.
  5. 4. Cool the pork belly in a bowl of cold water and drain with paper towels.
  6. 5. Mix the ingredients of ponzu and Japanese plum (ume) sauce in a bowl.
  7. 6. Place Step 1, 4, 2 and cherry tomatoes in that order in a bowl, pour Step 5 and it's ready.

Tips for cooking

Boiling the pork belly with cooking sake removes the smell. You can substitute mizuna mustard greens or radish sprouts for the red-leaf lettuce. If you are concerned about the spiciness of the sweet onion, you can soak it in water for about 5 minutes and remove the moisture with a paper towel.

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