Chinese Meats Recipes - Barbecued Pork (Char Shiu) Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 strips raw leg of pork

• ginger powder

• finely chopped garlic

• 1 dessertspoon Soya bean

• 1 dessertspoon red bean curd

• 1/4-1/2 teaspoon ginger sherry

• good pinch each salt and Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• very generous pinch sugar

• sprinkling Chinese red coloring powder cucumber, lettuce and parsley

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Method:

1. Have the pork cut into two 6-inch strips, 1 1/2 inches thick and 1 1/2 inches wide. Dust them with the ginger powder and garlic.

2. In a basin, mix together the Soya bean, bean curd, sherry, salt, Ve-Tsin and sugar. Mash them until they are completely mixed. Lay the pieces of pork in an oiled baking tin.

3. Work the above mixture and then the coloring powder into them on both sides. Place the tin in the hottest part of the oven, preheated to 400°F. or Gas Mark 6, and bake for 25 minutes. Turn and bake for a further 15 minutes.

4. Leave to become cold. Cut into slices and garnish with cucumber, lettuce and parsley.