Chinese BBQ pork/ Char Siu
Chinese BBQ pork/ Char Siu

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese bbq pork/ char siu. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Char siu, or Chinese BBQ Pork, is a delicious Cantonese roast meat. Growing up in the Catskills, the first time I saw this Chinese BBQ pork, or char siu, was at the Holiday Inn of all places. My father, the hotel restaurant's head chef at the time, used a closely guarded recipe of Chinese sauces, lots of.

Chinese BBQ pork/ Char Siu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chinese BBQ pork/ Char Siu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese bbq pork/ char siu using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese BBQ pork/ Char Siu:
  1. Make ready 450 g Pork belly 1.5 inch stripes/pork butt 1 inch thick
  2. Make ready 1 tbsp maltose
  3. Make ready Marinade:
  4. Take 1 inch cube red fermented tofu,mashed
  5. Take 5 tbsps sugar
  6. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsps oyster sauce / vegetarian stir-fry sauce
  7. Take 4 cloves garlic, minced
  8. Prepare 1/2 tbsps dark soya sauce /2 tbsps soya sauce
  9. Get 1 tbsp Shao xing wine
  10. Make ready 1 package char siu seasoning mix

Char Siu Pork (Chinese BBQ Pork) is SO easy to make at home in the oven! Chinese Barbecue Pork (Char Siu Pork). Char Siu (叉烧), also knows as Chinese BBQ pork, is a type of roasted pork originating from Cantonese cuisine. Traditionally, the marinated pork is skewered with long forks and roasted in an oven or over an open fire.

Steps to make Chinese BBQ pork/ Char Siu:
  1. Tenderize pork with a turkey lifter fork. Mix all marinade ingredients together then put on pork. Put pork into a zipper bag or a container and let it marinade overnight in refrigerator.
  2. Preheat oven to 375C. Put water in roasting pan. Remove pork from fridge and arrange on a wire rack inside roasting pan. Bake for 30 minutes then turn it oven and bake for another 30 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, add maltose to marinade. Simmer marinade until it turn glossy and thick. Set aside
  4. Bast thickened sauce on pork, bake for 10 minutes in order to get a nice caramelisation and char. Turn pork and bast other side, bake for 10 minutes to get even char on both sides. Remove from oven and rest for 10 minutes before slicing.

This Char Siu pork tastes just like the pork at your favorite Chinese restaurant. Caramelized on the outside, nice and tender on the inside. Most Chinese restaurants will serve Char Sui as a side dish or appetizer. At my favorite Chinese restaurant, they will serve this with the main entree alongside the. Char siu literally means "fork burned" which is a reference to the traditional preparation, skewered and barbecued over a fire.

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