Salty's Braised Pork Belly

Ingredients

• Pork belly

  raw

  1 lb or 454g

• Water

  1 cup or 237g

• Soy sauce

  regular sodium, shoyu

  1 cup or 255g

• Kikkoman Aji-Mirin Manjo Sweet Cooking Rice Seasoning

  kikkoman

  60 ml or 200g

• Rice wine vinegar

  2 tbsp or 30g

• Brown sugar

  2 tbsp or 18g

• Star anise

  ⅓ tsp or 1g

• Cinnamon sticks

  Don Enrique

  1 piece or 6g

• Bay leaves

  Compliments

  2 leaves or 1g

• Black Peppercorns

  The C.F. Sauer Company

  1 tsp or 4g

Directions

1. Pork Belly: Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place bacon slab in a Dutch oven or roasting pan. Add water, soy, aji mirin and vinegar. Sprinkle in the brown sugar, peppercorns, star anise, cinnamon stick and bay leaf. Cover tightly (use a couple layers of tinfoil if you don't have a heavy lid for your dish) and roast in the oven for 3-4 hours. Remove from oven, uncover and let cool in the liquid until it reaches room temperature. Once cool, put it in a ziplock bag and refrigerate overnight.