Char Siu
Char Siu

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Char Siu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Char Siu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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. Char siu literally means fork burn/roast-'Char' being fork (both noun and verb) and siu being burn/roast-after the traditional cooking method for the dish: long strips of seasoned boneless pork are.

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

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

Choosing Pork for Char Siu: This is perhaps the most important step. Chinese BBQ pork is loved the world over, and it's not hard to make at home! With some key ingredients and a couple of technique. Char Siu brings back many fond memories and pivotal moments in my life.

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.

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 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. There's char siu, whole roasted ducks, soy sauce chicken, five-spiced roast pork with the crunchiest Naively, I never knew char siu was such a huge thing to Chinese food culture—probably because of. Char siu literally means "fork burned" which is a reference to the traditional preparation, skewered At its best, char siu is moist and flavorful on the inside and caramelized and slightly chewy on the.

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