🏠 Buta no Shogayaki – Easy Tasty Japanese Ginger Pork Recipe

“Buta” means pig, and “Shoga” (or Shouga) means ginger. Literally, this dish translates to “Ginger cooking of pig.” I love pork, and I love ginger, so this is amazing 😆

Ingredients (for two hungry people)

• Pork (belly or neck scotch), 2mm slices … 250g
• Onions, 1mm slices … 2

• Sauce
  • Soy sauce … 3 tables spoons (45ml)
  • Sake … 3 table spoons
  • Mirin … 1.5 table spoons (22ml)
  • Sugar … 1.5 table spoons
  • Grated ginger … 1 tablespoon

How to make Japanese Ginger Pork Stir Fry

1. Oil a big pan and brown the pork. (Thick iron pan works best)
2. .Remove extra oil in pan with a paper towel.
3. Cover the pan with onions, and place the pork on top. Wait ’til the onions soften.
4. Pour the sauce and simmer until the liquid is almost gone.
5. Serve with rice and salad.

My go-to recipe for Shogayaki above is an average of recipes from Kurashiru and Orangepage, as well as Foodie which compared coating flour vs no flour on different slices of pork.

Adding a lot of onions and slicing them very thin gets them to absorb the sauce, making the dish so very tasty 😁