This recipe, with a step-by-step video shows you how to prepare, marinate and cook delicious, tender and moist pork fillet char siu - a fantastic filler to go with my super-soft Bao Buns
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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.
Nutrition
Calories: 587kcalCarbohydrates: 46gProtein: 53gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 163mgSodium: 733mgPotassium: 1153mgFiber: 1gSugar: 38gVitamin A: 130IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 51mgIron: 4mg
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