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Char siu – Cantonese barbecue pork

Name: Char siu – Cantonese barbecue pork
Total time: 90 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 800 g pork loin trimmed of visible fat cut into long bars; 3 tbsp hoisin sauce; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 2 tbsp honey; 1 tbsp rice vinegar; 1 tsp Chinese five-spice powder; 1 piece a clove of garlic grated; 1 tbsp honey for brushing the surface; 600 g cooked long-grain white rice 150 g per serving

Cantonese-style sweet and salty pork gets a red-brown surface from soy, honey and Chinese five-spice.

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90 minDifficulty: easy

Char siu grilled pork glistening slices with rice and green vegetables

Servings in this printout: 4

Ingredients

Servings4

800 g pork loin trimmed of visible fatcut into long bars
3 tbsp hoisin sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp rice vinegar
1 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
1 piece a clove of garlicgrated
1 tbsp honeyfor brushing the surface
600 g cooked long-grain white rice150 g per serving

Method

Mix hoisin sauce, soy sauce, honey, rice vinegar, Chinese five-spice powder and garlic. Reserve a tablespoon of marinade.
Turn the pork in the marinade and let it marinate in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
Heat the oven to 220 degrees. Put the meat on the rack on the baking sheet and bake for 25–35 minutes. Turn once and baste with marinade.
Brush the surface with honey and bake for another 3–5 minutes until the surface is shiny. Make sure the internal temperature is at least 70 °C.
Let the meat rest for 5 minutes and cut into slices. Serve with rice.

Nutrition per serving

Nutrition values are approximate estimates, not laboratory analyses. Products and portion size affect the result.

Net carbs: 51.32 g
Total carbohydrates (incl. fibre and polyols): 53.07 g
Protein: 50.97 g
Fat: 5.5 g

A reliable glycemic load estimate is not available.

Some ingredient data or calculation inputs could not be verified, so there is no reliable estimate for the whole serving.

Why is the estimate missing?

hoisin sauce · Suitable nutrition data was unavailable for this ingredient or product.

Notes

The marinade contains raw meat, so do not use it as a sauce for ready-made food without boiling it.
Estimated total time is 90 minutes: 15 min preparation, 30 min marinating, 35 min roasting, 5 min finishing the honey glaze, 5 min resting. The estimate includes the minimum 30-minute marinating time; longer marinating increases the total time.