How To Make Chinese ‘Char Siu’ BBQ Pork - Marion's Kitchen
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Marion Grasby is a food producer, television presenter and cookbook author who's had a life-long love affair with Asian food.
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How to Cook Authentic Cantonese Char Siu Roast Pork from scratch (蜜汁叉烧)
We're making Cantonese Char Siu BBQ pork! This is an awesome dish, and a worldwide favorite.
We wanted to show you guys the traditional way to make the Char Siu sauce from scratch, which was actually surprisingly difficult for us to figure out. So forgive our quick one minute backstory, we just wanted to let you guy know why our recipe might be so different to some others you've seen :)
However you cook this though - using either Lee Kum Kee or homemade sauce, either the oven or a charcoal grill - you'll end up getting a real tasty result.
As always, a detailed recipe and ingredient list is at a reddit comment in /r/cooking here:
One more thing - at 0:40 in the video, we wanted to include a section of a Chinese Char Siu cooking video. A special thank you to the YouTube channel 'Manaweblife' (actually Malaysian!) for providing that awesome video. Their channel's got a bunch of cool stuff, but check out the original video here:
ABOUT US
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I'm Chris Thomas from the United States and I've been living as an expat in China now for upwards of nine years, most of which in Shenzhen. I love living here, and the food is absolutely incredible. I read and speak some Chinese, and have been trying to religiously recreate the most authentic versions of the food I've eaten and loved here.
My partner in these videos is Stephanie Li, my similarly food-and-travel-obsessed long term girlfriend. She's a translator from Guangzhou and is an incredible home cook. Sometimes I'll be behind the wok but usually it'll be her cooking.
HOW TO MAKE CHAR SIU, AKA CHINESE BBQ PORK? #recipe #chinesefood #cooking #charsiu #cantonesefood
???? Char Siu (叉燒) - My dad's recipe for Chinese BBQ Pork!
Watch Daddy Lau teach us how to make char siu! Also known as Chinese BBQ Pork, this is a classic Cantonese dish that's extremely popular. If you’re new to char siu, it’s an extremely juicy, sweet, and savory pork dish, and it’s a popular entree on its own - and a pleasant addition to many different types of noodles, rice dishes, and pastries like cha siu bao.
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⏲ CHAPTERS ⏲
00:00 - Intro
01:16 - Background on Char Siu
01:45 - Best cuts of meat for char siu?
02:37 - Poke meat before marinating
03:43 - Dad’s special ingredients
04:35 - On five spice powder
05:20 - How to get the red color?
06:30 - Marinate pork
08:05 - Prepare char siu for cooking in oven
08:40 - Overview of oven timing & lathering
09:20 - How does this differ from how restaurants do it?
10:18 - How to make sure it stays moist?
10:56 - How restaurants get away with charging more?
11:54 - Lather with honey, plate, cut
13:39 - Why is pork important for Chinese New Year?
14:19 - Why we feast for Chinese New Year?
15:31 - Passing traditions down to our kids
16:26 - Happy Lunar New Year!
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- Five Spice Powder -
- Red Fermented Bean Curd -
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CHAR SIU PORK/ CHINESE BBQ PORK/| recipe
3 1/2 lbs pork shoulder
1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4cup Hoisin sauce
1/4 cup oyster sauce
1/3 cup char siu sauce
2 tbsp chinese cooking wine
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup brown sugar
2 tbsp ginger paste
2 tbsp garlic paste
1 tsp white pepper
1 tbsp chinese 5 spice
glaze
1/2 cup honey
2 tbsp soy sauce
1/4 cup char siu sauce
few drops red food coloring
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Char Siu Pork (Chinese BBQ Pork)
For all those times you've gazed longingly at the sticky red pork hanging from hooks in the window of Chinese Barbecue Meat Shops… MAKE IT AT HOME! It's so easy - you'll be amazed ho simple the Char Siu Sauce marinade is.
Authentic Note: Traditional Char Siu is stained red using fermented bean curds (which is red) which is a speciality ingredient found in some Asian grocery stores - you need to hunt into the dark corners to locate it. I have no other use for that ingredient so I started making it using red food colouring instead and it came out the same, so I stuck with it. The small amount of bean curd used doesn't affect the flavour, it's for the red colour.
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