Tokachi butadon gets a home-cook makeover here, with thick slices of pork belly cooked in a caramel soy sauce and served over Japanese rice for a quick, satisfying pork rice bowl. The method starts with shiraganegi, or thinly sliced white green onion, soaked in cold water to take away bitterness, then moves to a simple caramel made in a cold pan before soy sauce, sake, mirin, honey, and water are added.
The pork is seared in a frying pan until lightly crisp, then coated in the glossy sauce until everything thickens and clings to the meat. Finished with rice, peas or edamame, and the chilled green onion garnish, this Hokkaido-inspired donburi is an easy way to make butadon at home without a grill.
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