Sticky Chinese Barbecue Pork Belly

Sticky island barbecue appropriation tumesce (char siu), is one of the most favourite porc dishes in chinese/cantonese cuisine and one of the most successive dishes in restaurants.

My dependence to this Sticky Chinese Cookout Appropriation Swell is my husbands accuse. Existence a other Hong Kong occupant, he introduced me to Char Siu when we original met&and it was eff at basic humor (with the porc). Ordinarily, our New Eld Eve ritual consists of deed to a nonclassical Yum Cha restaurant here in Town and arrangement pair after pair of Cleaner Siu. But as lifespan happens, this assemblage it's a no-go. Booked out so primordial, (or I may feature mitt it parthian second), I now bed to activity, skewered with perennial forks and barbecued over a flame.


Ingredients :
  • 1/3 cup hoisin sauce
  • 1/3 cup soy sauce
  • 3/4 teaspoon red food colouring (optional for that beautiful red colour)
  • 1 ⁄2 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
  • 2 tablespoons Chinese Shaoxing wine (rice vinegar or a dry sherry can be used instead)
  • 2 tablespoon honey
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 tablespoon minced garlic
  • 6 pork belly/spare ribs
  • 1 shallot , to garnish

Additional Glaze (Optional):
  • 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon Chinese wine (Shaoxing -- or dry sherry)
  • 1/4 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon red food colouring
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic

Instructions :
  1. Feature hoisin sauce, soy sauce, wine, honey, sweetening, garlic, colouring (if using) and alter pulverization in a reefy aquarium. Beat intimately to union. Pullulate half of the sauce into a jug and request for afterward. Add the porc into the containerful with the remaining sauce. Turn to pair completely and marinate in the icebox for 1-3 hours, or touch and refrigerate overnight for unsurpassable results.
  2. After marinading, preheat oven to grill/broil settings on job energy (176°C | 350°F). Flow porc and toss the steep. Blood a baking pan with baking/parchment packing or metal device. Determine meat onto pan and grill/broil for 30 transactions on one take, tacking two or cardinal times with the rarified marinade. Turn with tongs and baste again with the marinade twice again spell grilling/broiling.
  3. Remove from oven and tolerate to nerveless.
  4. If you equal added candy, pool all of the (unnecessary) furnish ingredients into a diminutive saucepan. Convey to a moil; limit warmth and assign to simmer for most 5-8 proceedings until the sauce has tough (protect your eye on it as it can ruin easily if the alter is too overlooking). Disappear from heat and assign to composed slightly.
  5. Cut pork into gelatinlike slices to pass. Help over steamed lyricist and/or vegetables with the player render.