China Char Siu (Barbecue Pork)
Char siu (barbecue pork) is a staple in Chinese cuisine. It is eaten as is with stir-fried vegetables and hot rice or added as a condiment to noodle and fried rice dishes. The sauce is traditionally made with honey, hoisin sauce, rice wine or sherry, and five-spice powder.
Recipe Servings: 4
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
1 hour 15 minutes
Total Time
1 hour 25 minutes
Vegetarian
Vegan
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Kosher
Halal
Ingredients
- 2 lbs (907 g) pork (butt or shoulder with some marbling of fat)
- ¼ cup (60 ml) soy sauce
- ¼ cup (60 ml) oyster (hoisin) sauce
- 2 Tbsp (30 ml) rice wine or sherry
- 2 Tbsp (30 ml) tomato paste
- 2 Tbsp (30 ml) ketchup
- 1 piece (½ inch or 1.3 centimeters) fresh ginger, chopped
- 2 tsp (10 ml) sesame oil
- ½ tsp (2.5 ml) five-spice powder
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- Cooked noodles or rice, as needed for serving
Directions
- Cut pork into long strips.
- Whisk together soy sauce, oyster (hoisin) sauce, rice wine or sherry, tomato paste, ketchup, ginger, sesame oil, five-spice powder, and chopped garlic cloves in a glass bowl to make marinade.
- Add pork to marinade and let rest overnight in the refrigerator.
- Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C).
- Cover a roasting pan with aluminum foil and set a roasting rack inside it.
- Place marinated pork strips over rack.
- Bake meat for 30 minutes.
- Turn meat over and bake for 45 minutes, occasionally brushing the meat with marinade.
- Remove meat from oven and cut it into thin slices.
- Serve meat over cooked noodles or rice.
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