Rafute
Japan · East Asia
- Short description
- Rafute is a slow-braised pork belly dish with a glossy sweet-savory sauce.
- Ingredients
- Pork belly slowly braised with soy sauce, brown sugar, awamori, dashi, and ginger.
- Cultural note
- Long simmering turns a fatty cut into a soft celebratory dish, often served in small portions because the sauce is rich.
- Common misconception
- It is closer to a slow braise than to roast pork; the glaze comes from repeated simmering.
image credit
- creator:
- David Iwaoka
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- modified:
- Copied from a Wikimedia Commons thumbnail and re-encoded for Gochizu.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.