Char Siu
Char Siu

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, char siu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Char Siu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Char Siu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

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

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