Recipe: Tasty Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siu)

Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siu). Basted it occasionally with the reserved marinade after I reduced it on the stove. Sliced it up and served it with fried rice, bok choy and the extra sauce. Better than store bought or takeout and super easy to make!! "Char siu" literally means "fork roast" - "char" being "fork" (both noun and verb) and "siu" being "roast" - after the traditional cooking method for the dish: long strips of seasoned boneless pork are skewered with long forks and placed in a covered oven or over a fire.

Char siu (or slightly different spelling, cha siu) is its Cantonese name, but in Mandarin, it is known as cha shao. To make char siu, pork is marinated in a sweet BBQ sauce and then roasted. To serve the Char Siu (Chinese barbecue pork) Bring the remaining marinade to a boil. You can have Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siu) using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siu)

1. Prepare of For Meat.
2. You need 4 pieces of pork shoulder steaks.
3. It's of For Marinade.
4. You need 2 tablespoons of sugar.
5. It's 1 teaspoon of garlic powder.
6. It's 1 teaspoon of salt.
7. You need 1/2 teaspoon of five spice powder.
8. You need 1/4 teaspoon of paprika.
9. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon of white pepper.
10. It's 1 tablespoon of sesame oil.
11. You need 1 tablespoon of Chinese rice wine.
12. Prepare 1 tablespoon of soy sauce.
13. Prepare 1 tablespoon of hoisin sauce.
14. It's 1 tablespoon of tomato paste.
15. You need 1 tablespoon of honey.

Arrange the Char Siu on the serving plate and drizzle the marinade on top. You can also use it as char siu dipping sauce. Char Siu (Chinese BBQ Pork) 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 fried rice.

Chinese BBQ Pork (Char Siu) step by step

1. Put all ingredients for the marinade in a bowl to mix a sauce.
2. Use the sauce to marinate pork in refrigerator overnight. Leave 2 tablespoon of the sauce for glazing.
3. Preheat an oven in grill mode at 200c.
4. Set the marinated pork on a roasting rack (to have air flow below the meat). Cook on one side for 20 minutes.
5. Flip the pork and glaze the sauce on another side and continue cooking for 15 minutes.
6. Flip the pork again to glaze the sauce on the remaining side and continue cooking for another 15 minutes.
7. Let the pork rest for 10-15 minutes and then enjoy!.

No matter how it is served, if made RIGHT, it can easily be my favorite part of the meal. The sweet & savory flavors will make you scream for more! You may serve this Char Siu over rice or noodles. This dish is called Char Siu in Cantonese dialect, or Chashao (叉烧) in Chinese language. It is of Cantonese origin where marinated skewers of pork meat or pork belly are barbecued to charred, savory, and sticky sweet perfection.