Using pork fillet means this cooks far quicker than a rib or belly and is also much healthier.
We have ours either with bao buns or with rice. Bao buns are now available in supermarkets along with char siu marinade but trust me, nothing beats homemade
2 x 500-600g pork fillet (also know as tenderloin) sinew removed
For the marinade:
6 fat garlic cloves, finely chopped
6cm piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped
6 tbsp tomato ketchup
6 tbsp hoisin sauce
6 tbsp honey
2 tsp Chinese 5 spice
3 tbsp dark soy sauce
3 tbsp rice vinegar
3 tbsp sunflower oil
Put all the marinade ingredients in a blender or food processor and blitz
Put the pork fillets in a dish and smother the marinade. Cover and marinate in the fridge for at least an hour and ideally overnight.
Preheat the oven to 200c Line a roasting tin with foil (this will help with washing up). Fill with water to just below the wire rack. Remove the pork from the marinade and place on the wire rack and put in the oven for 20 mins, basting with the marinade every 7 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 10 minutes
While the pork is resting pour the marinade into a small pan and bubble to reduce a bit and use later to drizzle over the cooked pork.
To serve, slice the pork and serve with either bao buns or rice with reduced marinade on the side
Pork fillet Char Siu
Ingredients
- 2 500g Pork fillets sinew removed
For the Marinade
- 6 cloves garlic roughly chopped
- 5 cm Ginger roughly chopped
- 6 tbsp tomato ketchup
- 6 tbsp hoisin sauce
- 6 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp chinese 5 spice
- 3 tbsp rice vinegar
- 3 tbsp sunflower oil
Instructions
- Put all the marinade ingredients in a blender or food processor and blitz. Place the pork in a dish and smother the marinade all over.
- Cover and marinate in the fridge for at least an hour and ideally overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 200c. Line a roasting tin with foil (this will help with washing up).
- Fill with water to just below the wire rack.
- Remove the pork from the marinade and place on the wire rack and put in the oven for 20mins, basting every 7 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to rest for 10 minutes
- Pour the marinade into a small pan and bubble to reduce a bit and use later to drizzle over the cooked pork.
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