Char Siu Pork
叉燒 Char Siu Pork
Char siu pork is a typical chinese dish. My favourite way to eat it is with pancakes (peking doilies) slices of cucumber & spring onion with hoisin sauce (leftover marinade from the pork). It can be eaten in so many other ways too, the list is endless.
Recipe Ingredients:
- Approx 750g pork tenderloins
- 1 1/2 tbs runny honey, mixed with 1 1/2 tbs hot water.
- Marinade:-
- 3 tbs soy sauce
- 2 tbs sake or dry sherry
- 4 tbs hoisin sauce
- 1 tsp chinese five spice powder
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp ginger powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- dash red food colouring (optional, but gives a beautiful colour)
Recipe Steps:
- Combine all marinade ingredients and put into a plastic freezer type bag.
- Clean pork tenderloin by removing sinews etc, prick all over with a metal skewer and add pork to marinade in bag. Tie knot in top and massage marinade well into pork.
- Leave in fridge overnight, massaging occasionally.
- Preheat oven to 200c. Half fill a deep roasting tin with water, put wire rack on top and place pork on wire rack.
- Roast for 15 mins, remove and baste with marinate. Lower oven temperature to 180c and roast a further 10 mins.
- Remove and baste with honey/water mixture. Roast a further 10 mins.
- Let it rest and slice thinly.
- Meanwhile, pour marinade into a small heavy saucepan and bring to a boil, simmer 2 mins and serve with pork.
- I promise this will be the most succulent, tender, tasty pork you have ever eaten!
Serving Size: Serves 6
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
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Beautiful picture. Am adding this too my list of recipes to try. I'm thinking of making this for my niece's birthday barbecue. Will let you know how it turns out!