Char Siu Cantonese Barbeque Pork (Easy Version)
Oven-roasted pork in Cantonese style marinade, sweet and delicious!
Ingredients
- 600 g Pork Shoulder (Pork neck is also good)
- 1 tbsp Maltose Syrup (Alternatively Honey or Maple Syrup if you can't find)
Marinade
- 3 tbsp Char Siu Sauce (Lee Kum Kee)
- 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine (Or other rice wine that you have)
- 1 tbsp Dark Soy Sauce
- 4 Slices Ginger
- 3 Cloves Garlic
Optional
- Rice
- Sunnyside Egg
- Green Vegetables (Chinese Broccoli is a good choice)
- Sweet Soy Sauce
Instructions
- Marinate overnight: In a Ziploc bag, put the pork and marinate together. If the pork is too long, cut them into smaller pieces to become long strips of around 20cm. Close the bag, try to squeeze all the air out. “Massage” the pork a bit to make sure all the marinade covers the meat. Leave it in the fridge overnight.
- Prepare the oven: Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius. Wrap the utensil you are going to use in the oven with foil. The marinade will get burn easily.
- Take the pork out of the marinade: Take the pork from the Ziploc bag, keep the marinade aside. I decided to use some skewers to “levitate” the pork to keep hor air flowing beneath the pork when roasting. So I poke a skewer through each of the pork strips. If you don’t have a skewer, it’s okay, it will still work.
- Time to cook! Put the pork in the oven. Brush some of the marinades on top. Keep repeating it every 8-10 mins. After the first 2 times, flip the pork over. Repeat it another 2-3 times.
- Final glaze: The pork should be ready after 35-40mins. It should look cooked but not burnt yet. Mix the maltose syrup/honey/maple syrup with the remaining marinade, and put a final glaze on the pork. With the extra sugar on top, now you need to watch out carefully and make sure it’s not going to turn into charcoal! It should take another 5-10 mins to reach a beautiful glossy state, maybe slightly burnt, but not completely black. If it’s still not ready, feel free to put another layer of the sweet marinade, and be patient to wait until it reaches the perfect state!
- Serve with the optional sides: Remember to slice to pork diagonally, this will make it looks nicer too! Add a sunnyside egg, some veggies, and rice to go with the Char Siu you just made! If it’s too much, just go with some rice that is already tasty enough! Put some of the sauce from the baking dish to mix with your rice, or some sweet soy sauce to go with it!