Char Siu
Ingredients
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| 1 pack pork loin steaks | ½ tspn black pepper |
| 5 tbspn hoisin sauce | ½ tspn Chinese 5 spice |
| 1 tspn salt | touch of red food colouring (optional) |
| 1 tspn sugar | runny honey to glaze |
| 2 tspn cornstarch |
Preparation
- Remove the fat from the pork loins. (1 pack from the supermarket typically contains 2 loins).
- In a suitable bowl thoroughly mix the hoisin sauce, salt, sugar, cornstarch, black pepper, Chinese 5 spice and optionally the red colouring.
- Place the pork loins on a plate and coat both sides with the hoisin marinade and set aside for one or two hours if possible.
- Pre-heat the oven to 200° C.
Cooking - 50 mins
- Place the pork loins onto a rack and roast in the pre-heated oven for 30 min.
- Turn the pork loins over and continue to roast for another 20 min.
- Remove from the oven and glaze with the runny honey, then set aside to cool.
- When cool cut the loins into about 1 cm wide and 5 cm lengths.
- This will be sufficient for 2 portions and can be refrigerated for a few days or frozen for future use.
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