Chinese Chickens, Ducks and Meats
Recipes - Pork Lean (Char Shiu) Recipe
Ingredients
12 oz. lean leg of pork
pinch salt
pinch sugar
pinch Ve-Tsin
(M.S.G.)
few drops cochineal
1 dessertspoon red Soya
bean curd
1 dessertspoon soy sauce
parsley
Method:
Have the pork cut
the way of the grain. Divide it, lengthwise, into
two strips. Place them in a bowl. Add the salt,
sugar, Ve-Tsin, cochineal, bean curd and soy sauce.
Work these well
together until the meat soaks them up. Impale each
piece of meat on a wire hook and hang them on a bar
of the oven shelf with a drip tray underneath.
Bake
for 30 minutes in the oven preheated to 475°F. or
Gas Mark 9.
Very thinly slice
the meat across the grain. Place the pieces in a
heated serving dish and pour the juices from the
drip tray over them. Garnish with parsley.