Cantonese are foodies and we like to eat! From stir fried, deep fried, steamed, dim sum and Cantonese BBQ. Like roasted duck, roasted pig, soy sauce chicken, salted baked chicken and Cantonese BBQ pork; just to name a few. Myself, I would love to make all kinds of BBQ at home but the equipment we have at home are very limited and most Cantonese BBQ needs commercial kitchen equipment to make it. But this BBQ pork recipe will show you how we can make it with our very own kitchen oven.
So today I will show you how to make Cantonese BBQ pork in your own kitchen. It might taste a little different from the BBQ at a nice Chinese restaurant bcz they use gas BBQ oven box/stove and its special design to make BBQ. But I tried few times with my home oven, and the pork came out pretty juicy and tender! So let's cook!!
Ingredients
- 2lbs pork shoulder/butt (washed ,dried and cut 1/2 inch thick)
- 6 cloves garlic(sliced)
- 10 slices gingers(strips)
- 3 whole star anise
- 2 green onion(cut into 3 pcs)
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| Star anise can be found at your local ethnic or chinese market. If you have trouble finding it, a decent replacement is to use a little Chinese 5 Spice as it contains star anise powder in there (but the flavor profile will change slightly..) |
BBQ Sauce
- 5 tbs cooking wine
- 6 tbs hoisin sauce(some chef like to use Chu Hou sauce 柱候酱 but I like hoisin, bcz it's easy to get. Later I will post some recipe with Chu Hou sauce)
- 6 tbs gold label soy sauce
- 4 tbs honey
- 1 tbs sugar
- 1 1/4 tbs red color(tomato color)(optional) skip the color if you don't like red BBQ pork
- 1 tbs sesame oil
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| The red food coloring will give it that signature color we know from Chinese BBQ. The honey and sugar will also caramelize the outsides of the pork and pork fat which taste very delicious at the end. You want to make sure to use the gold label dark soy as it has a richer soy flavor and darker color than regular soy sauce we use on a daily basis. |
Marinating
In a big bowl, marinate the pork with garlic, ginger, star anise, green onion and all the seasonings. Use tongs or wear a glove to mix it evenly, and let it marinate for at least 2 hours (over night would be much better). Store it in the fridge if you want it to marinade over night. |
| Add in all the dry ingredients. They just need to be chopped enough so that they release their flavors into the marinade. |
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| Add in the sauce/marinade we talked about above... |
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| ...then mix it all together! Make sure the sauce has coated the pork entirely. I suggest using gloves or tongs because the red food coloring will stain your hands pretty good. |
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| Marinade this anywhere from 2 hours to half a day or even overnight. Overnight isn't necessary as the marinade will only permeate the meat's interior so much. So in other words, letting it marinade for 1 day to 3 days won't mean that on the third day the pork will be marinaded to the center. |
Roasting
Pre Heat the oven for 5-10 minutes to 425 degrees, then place the pork on a roasting tray with rack. |
| You want to have the pork lifted like such so that it doesn't 'stew' itself in its own juices (like a pot roast). You want the outsides to caramelize and get crisp from the sugars in our marinade. |
Let it roast for 40 mins.
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| Remember to let it cool before cutting! Your pork will look something like this. |
The pork should be a little burn at the edges after 40 minutes, which is a good thing. The honey and sugar are caramelizing on the pork edges which are also super delicious. That's exactly what you want the pork to look like, a little burnt. Now take out the pork carefully and place it on a plate, let it cool off and rest for a little bit before slicing into it. Cutting into it too early will release moisture that we don't want leaving the meat. While the pork is cooling, in a small bowl mix 1 tbs honey with a couple tbs of water and brush the cooked BBQ pork with the honey-water mixture to give it an extra kick before chopping it! That's it,Honey BBQ Pork!
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| Glaze it with a honey+water solution while it's cooling to give it that nice sweet sticky kick! |
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| Mmmmm I could just put this in a sandwich and call it a day... |
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| There you have it! Look familiar??? |
-DON'T FORGET-
****Save some for next recipe!****
We are going to use this pork in the next dish so save some for later!
Coming up next!
Singapore Mei Fun
星洲炒米
Proverbs 3:12
"for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights."
箴言3:12
"因為耶和華所愛的，他必責備， 正如父親責備他喜愛的兒子一樣。"
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