Our Family's Recipe for Char Siu Pork
Our Family's Recipe for Char Siu Pork

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, our family's recipe for char siu pork. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Our Family's Recipe for Char Siu Pork is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Our Family's Recipe for Char Siu Pork is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Growing up in the Catskills, the first time I saw this Chinese BBQ pork, or char siu, was at the Holiday Inn of all places. My father, the hotel restaurant's head chef at the time, used a closely guarded recipe of Chinese sauces, lots of garlic, and spices to make his classic char siu. Chinese BBQ Pork, also known as Char Siu, is a traditionally roasted pork covered in a sweet barbeque sauce.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have our family's recipe for char siu pork using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Our Family's Recipe for Char Siu Pork:
  1. Take 500 grams Pork butt (shoulder roast) block (or other cut you like)
  2. Prepare 90 ml Soy sauce
  3. Take 60 grams Sugar
  4. Prepare 20 ml Sake
  5. Make ready 1 the green part of 1 stalk Green onion or scallion
  6. Take 2 to 3 slices Ginger
  7. Make ready 2 to 3 slices Garlic

I however, like to use meaty cuts of pork belly. The higher fat content makes your char siu more tender and juicy. Please use pork belly as it is also a popular cut for Char Siu. That is not important at all and please cut it straight as you prefer.

Instructions to make Our Family's Recipe for Char Siu Pork:
  1. Brown the lumps of meat on all sides in a pan while fipping them.
  2. Put all the flavoring ingredients in another pan. Add the green onion, ginger, garlic and browned pork. Cover with a lid and simmer over high heat.
  3. When the lid starts clattering from the built up steam, turn the heat down to low and simmer for 15 minutes. Flip the meat over and simmer for another 15 minutes.
  4. Take the lid off, simmer until there's only a little liquid left in the pan, and it's done.

Thanks and enjoy the char siu. It's a perfect recipe for using up leftover char siu. And if you don't want to go to the trouble of making char siu, you can still make baked BBQ pork buns at home by grabbing takeout char siu from your local Chinese restaurant. You can just have the dough ready to go and it will be much quicker. I like this recipe and have made it three times, with modifications the second and third time.

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