Butabara Daikon

This comforting weeknight meal requires just a few ingredients and can be made entirely in your rice cooker.

Minimal effort 🤝 maximum flavor.

Instructions:

Ingredients:

1 tsp

2 Tbsp

scallion

1/2 lb sliced pork belly

1 Tbsp

4 Tbsp

1/2 a daikon

1” piece


Prep by cutting daikon into 1/2” quarter round pieces and slicing the ginger.

1.

Add daikon, ginger, pork belly, shoyu, sugar, mirin, and dashi powder to rice cooker bowl.

2.

Pour over about 1/2 cup of water.

3.

Close and cook on mixed or regular setting until the cycle is complete.

4.

Once it’s done, open and mix with a wooden spoon to break up larger pieces of daikon.

5.

Plate and garnish with finely scallion and shichimi togarashi.

6.

Notes: We used a rice cooker for simplicity, but a regular pot or donabe would work fine too.

It took about 45 min to cook in our rice cooker.