Kakuni (Japanese Braised Pork Belly)

Name: Kakuni (Japanese Braised Pork Belly)
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 600 g slab skinless pork belly (with visible fat-and-lean layers); 30 g ginger root; 1 Japanese leek (naganegi) (green part, or regular leek/onion); 500 ml pork broth (the liquid from cooking the pork); 100 ml lager beer (or water/sake); 1 tbsp honey; 2 tbsp light brown sugar (or white sugar); 100 ml Japanese soy sauce (koikuchi shoyu); 4 soft-boiled eggs (peeled); Japanese leek (naganegi) (white part, to garnish); Japanese mustard (karashi) (or hot English mustard)

Instructions

Prep:10minCook:1h 45min

Buta no Kakuni is a flavorful Japanese home-style dish made with melt-in-mouth pork belly slow-cooked in a rich soy-based broth, served with soft-boiled eggs and green onion.

Updated at: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:33:31 GMT