I’m just itching to make a lot of Japanese dishes lately, partly to blame were the animes I watched on home cooking. There is not really a plot twist in here and true to anime style, the scenes are always exaggerated and dramatic but the anime really have it down when it comes to making food look irresistible.
The animes made want to explore more Japanese simple home cooked food and this pork shogayaki really has all the right ticks. It’s delicious, easy, fast and filling. And you can have it several ways, on it’s own, with rice and other dishes or even in a donburi which is what I made here.
To give you more insight on what is donburi, it is basically a ‘rice bowl’ but different places have different styles of donburi;
Source; TripAdvisor
Pork Shogayaki
A Japanese favourite and quick to put together.
Ingredients
- 300 gms Thin slices of pork loins
- Salt
- White pepper
- Spring onions garnish
- 2 tablespoons sunflower oil
- Furikake for garnish
Grated together;
- 1/2 an onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 thumb size piece of ginger
Sauce;
- 4 tablespoons soy sauce
- 4 tablespoons sake
- 4 tablespoons mirin
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 3 tablespoons water
Instructions
- Heat a frying pan with some sunflower oil. Season loins with salt and pepper.
- Quick fry the loin slices in batches. Do not over cook or it will go hard.
- Take the out on a plate. Add the grated ingredients to the sauce, pour it into same frying pan.
- Let it come to a boil. Taste and adjust.
- Return the loins back into the pan with the sauce.
- Simmer for two minutes.
- Eat with rice and other condiments of your choice. Garnish with furikake.
Pork Shogayaki Donburi
Ingredients
- Pork shogayaki refer above
- Snow peas
- Japanese cucumber sliced thinly
- Cherry tomatoes cut halves
- Shredded cabbage
- Furikake of your choice
- Cooked rice
Instructions
- Scoop cooked rice to a big bowl.
- Blanch snow peas in boiling water till cooked. Quickly submerge in cold water.
- Arrange toppings as you will, end with sprinkling of furikake.
