CHAR SIU (DELICIOUS ROASTED SWEET PORK)

This is a delicious Chinese red roast pork that you see hanging in the windows of Chinatown, dripping with juices and ready to cut. The ingredients are simple and once you taste it, you will never need to buy this expensive meat. This recipe has been made by generations of Chinese and this is my mother's version.

Updated at: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:06:06 GMT

Ingredients

10 servings

2.5kgboneless pork butt

1 Tcoarse salt

2 cupssugar

2 squarenam yue

cakes, fermented soy bean in red rice and wine

¼ cChinese wine

or any kind of hard liquor

1 TChinese 5 spice

⅛ tred food color

¼ cminced garlic

Instructions

Step 1

Slice pork butt into 1 1/2" slices. Turn, then slice into 1 1/2" strips. Place meat into a very large bowl and add salt, sugar, nam yue, wine, 5 spice, food color and garlic. Mix well and place into 1 gallon sealable bags. Flatten the bags to freeze. Place one bag in the refrigerator and marinate for 2-5 days. Line a half sheet pan or raised cookie sheet with foil. Place a cake rack on foil and evenly place marinated meat on rack. Place a 9x13 "pan with one quart of water on bottom shelf of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and put char siu on middle or top shelf. Bake for 30 minutes, remove, baste, turn pieces and baste again. Return to oven for 15 minutes. Repeat process 2 more times. Slice finished char siu and save extra pieces by wrapping in plastic wrap and putting into a sealable plastic bag. Take out individual pieces and thaw as needed.

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