Japanese Pork Recipes

Japanese cooking prizes umami, seasonality and precision — clean dashi-based flavours that highlight rather than mask each ingredient. When Japanese cooks work with pork, they reach for soy sauce, miso, mirin, dashi, ginger and sesame, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, boiling and steaming.

A mild, sweet meat that spans quick chops and bacon to long-cooked shoulder and ribs. In this collection it's most often cooked with soy sauce, mirin, eggs, garlic, neutral oil and sake. The dishes here span japanese classics ready in as little as 27 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

Reader favourite: Miso Ramen (Sapporo-Style Rich Miso Broth with Corn & Butter) is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.9★ from 4,200 ratings.