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Recipe:
Serves 4-6
Time: 2 hours 30 mins
Maple Sake Pork Belly
Serves 4-6
Time: 2 hours 30 mins
Maple Sake Pork Belly
- 1 2-inch piece of fresh ginger, split
- 2 shallots, split
- 1 garlic bulb, split
- 11⁄2 cups sake
- 1⁄3 cup maple syrup
- 1⁄3 cup soy sauce
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 1 4x6inch piece of kombu
- 2 lbs skinless pork belly
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 2 tsp water
- 2 tsp rice vinegar
- Sliced scallions, for serving
- Maple furikake, for
Chuck Cruz • maple sake pork belly


A couple months ago I ate at one of my favorite restaurants in NYC and had some of the best meatballs of my life. The texture was incredible.
I started doing some research and found that the addition of baking soda to the meat mixture was likely the reason.
- It changes the pH of the meat to... See more
Mark Bittman, one of the funniest men I know and author of the much-missed “Minimalist” column in the New York Times. The first time I had it, I thought: this tastes just like perfect