Recipe of Flavorful Char Siu

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, char siu. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Char Siu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Char Siu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

"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 Chinese BBQ pork, is one of the most popular pork recipes in Cantonese cooking. If you have been to Chinatown, I am sure you have seen glistening and perfectly roasted meats such as Chinese roast pork (siu yuk), chicken and duck hanging in front of the Chinese BBQ restaurants. BBQ pork belly char siu is the epitome of Cantonese BBQ.

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

The ingredients needed to make Char Siu:

1. Get pork shoulder, sliced 1 in thick
2. Take sugar
3. Get soy sauce
4. Prepare kikkoman hoisin sauce
5. Take dry sherry
6. Take toasted sesame oil
7. Prepare white pepper
8. Get Chinese five spice powder
9. Get ginger, grated
10. Make ready garlic, grated
11. Take ketchup
12. Prepare honey

Char siu or sometimes spelled as 'char siew' is a popular Chinese barbecued pork and is one of the most delicious meat dishes. Authentic char siu recipe uses particular pork cuts marinated with a mixture of sauces, condiments and aromatics. Bring to a boil on high heat; reduce heat to medium-high. Char Siu is the Chinese barbecue pork famous among the region of Guangdong and Hong Kong.

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.

Bring to a boil on high heat; reduce heat to medium-high. Char Siu is the Chinese barbecue pork famous among the region of Guangdong and Hong Kong. This unadorned dish can is available in every corner of the street, and each restaurant boasted to have the best secret recipe for the barbecue pork. A good Char Siu should have a glossy surface with the trademark dark mahogany color. The name Char Siu (or Cha Shao), literally means 'fork roast' due to the traditional way of cooking.

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