Butadon 豚丼

It's hard to dine out these days with a baby, so I try to cook at home as much as possible and experiment with new recipes. It's going to be challenging next month when I go back to work part-time. I seriously don't know how Mummy B is going to juggle between work and family... I will tell you more in 2 weeks time.

Butadon, or "pork rice bowl", has thin slices of pork and onion simmered in a sweet broth and served on top of a bowl of rice. This is a quick and easy pork recipe, and the pork can be replaced with beef slices to make gyudon (beef rice bowl).

Ingredients
1 onion, thinly sliced
300g pork fillet, thinly sliced
1.5 tbsp mirin
1.5 tbsp soy sauce
1/2 cup dashi stock
1 tsp sugar
Cooking oil
2 stalks scallion, finely chopped

Method
Heat oil in pan and saute onion till soft. Add pork slices and stir-fry for a few minutes till brown. Combine mirin, sugar, soy sauce and dashi. Pour mixture into pan. Reduce the heat and simmer the pork, covered, for 5 minutes.

Serve over Japanese rice. Garnish with chopped scallion.