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- Cuisine: Modern Asian
- Makes 300 g
Char siu, or barbecue pork, is used in everything from steamed buns to fried rice. It is also a good substitute for duck in the Peking duck recipe (see pages 178–9) or simply wrapped up in Chinese cabbage leaves.
Featured as part of our Cooks and their Books series, this recipe comes courtesy of Teage-Ezard, award-winning chef and restauranteur.
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Ingredients
1 pork fi llet weighing around 300 g (10 oz),
trimmed of fat and sinew
2.5 cm (1 in) piece ginger, fi nely chopped
2 cloves garlic, fi nely chopped
1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon light soy sauce
1 tablespoon tomato sauce
1 tablespoon Shao Xing wine
1 tablespoon shaved palm sugar
1 tablespoon honey
Preparation
With a sharp knife make shallow diagonal slits across the surface of the pork at 2 cm (¾ in) intervals. Combine the ginger, garlic, hoisin, soy, tomato sauce, Shao Xing wine and palm sugar in a bowl and add the pork. Marinate in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours (or overnight).
Heat a grill or barbecue to medium heat and add the pork. Cook, turning and basting with leftover marinade, for 15 minutes or until the juices run clear when tested with a skewer. By this stage the surface should be nicely charred. Brush the pork with honey just before taking it off the heat.
Recipe from Lotus: Asian Flavours by Teage Ezard with photographs by Greg Elms. Published by Hardie Grant Books.
If you enjoyed this Char siu pork recipe then browse more Modern Asian recipes, meat recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.
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