Char Siu
Char Siu

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Char siu, or Chinese BBQ Pork, is a delicious Cantonese roast meat. Char siu (or slightly different spelling, cha siu) is its Cantonese name, but in Mandarin, it is known as cha shao. The best Char Siu recipe with perfect Cantonese BBQ char siu pork and sweet char siu sauce.

Char Siu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Char Siu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have char siu using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Char Siu:
  1. Get 8 lbs pork shoulder, sliced 1 in thick
  2. Get 1 cup sugar
  3. Take 1 cup soy sauce
  4. Make ready 1 jar kikkoman hoisin sauce
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup dry sherry
  6. Prepare 2 Tbsp toasted sesame oil
  7. Take 1/2 tsp white pepper
  8. Prepare 2 tsp Chinese five spice powder
  9. Take 2 Tbsp ginger, grated
  10. Take 2 Tbsp garlic, grated
  11. Make ready 1/2 cup ketchup
  12. Make ready 2/3 cup honey

The main ingredients for Char Siu sauce contains oyster sauce (for more information about commonly used. Choosing Pork for Char Siu: This is perhaps the most important step. Char Siu is a fragrant and delicious Chinese BBQ pork usually made using pork shoulder or pork belly. It is marinated in a homemade sauce for hours before being cooked over a charcoal grill.

Steps to make Char Siu:
  1. Combine the sugar, soy, hoisin, spices, ginger, garlic, sherry, oil.
  2. Divide the sauce in half.
  3. Places the pork in a large ziplock and cover in one half of the marinade. Marinade 4 hours to over night.
  4. Remove the pork from the marinade and smoke at 225 to 250 for 4-5 hours.
  5. Add the ketchup and honey to the other portion of marinade.
  6. On a wire racked inserted into a baking tray, lay the smoked pork out in a single layer.
  7. Turn the overhead broiler on in your oven. Do NOT use a drawer broiler.
  8. Brush with the reserved sauce and broil 5 minutes until the surface is bubbling and mahogany in color. Feel free to layer the sauce on as it broils. Repeat on the other side.
  9. Serve sliced with extra sauce or chop and make char siu bao.

Char Siu brings back many fond memories and pivotal moments in my life. My mom is a typical homemaker who Char Siu was not on the menu since my mother did not know how to make it. Char siu, also known as Chinese bbq pork, is one of the most famous and delicious Chinese recipes. Watch the entire video to learn how to cook char siu pork. A rack of cha siu pork.

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