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Soy-Braised Pork Butt with Ginger

A whole bone-in pork butt is blanched, then braised slowly in soy sauce, sherry, ginger and a little sugar. The cooking liquid reduces to a sticky glaze that you spoon back over the carved meat.

  • Yield6 servings
  • Hands-on40 min
  • Total2 h 53 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

  • 2 kgpork butt roast, bone-in, skin-on
  • 1 piecefresh ginger, 10 cm, peeled and thickly sliced
  • 3scallions, halved lengthwise
  • 90 mlsoy sauce
  • 3 tbspdry sherry
  • 2 tbspbrown sugar
  • 1.2 Lwater, for the braise, plus water for blanching

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Soy
  • Sulfites
  • Legumes (any)
  • Wheat
  • Grapes
  • Onion family (any)
  • Scallion (green onion)
  • Ginger
  • Mold-ripened and koji-fermented foods
  • All mammal meat (alpha-gal)
  • Pork
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
  • Alcohol

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Aromatic spice

Texture

  • Tender-braised

Equipment

  • Stovetop

Season

  • Fall
  • Winter

Occasion

  • Weekend project
  • Entertaining

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • 1–3 hours total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Make-ahead friendly
  • Leftovers-friendly

Nutrition

  • Calories: high
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: low
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: low
  • Sodium: high

Budget

  • Budget: low

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