Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy but authentic homemade char siu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Easy But Authentic Homemade Char Siu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy But Authentic Homemade Char Siu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

The thing is, they're amazingly easy to make at home as well. If you're new to char siu, it's an extremely juicy, sweet, and savory pork dish, and it's a popular entree on its own - and a pleasant addition to many different types of noodles, rice dishes, and pastries like char siu bao. For our gigantic Lunar New Year feast this year, my dad made char siu because it. Char Siu, or Chinese BBQ pork, is one of the most popular pork recipes in Cantonese cooking.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy but authentic homemade char siu using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy But Authentic Homemade Char Siu:

1. Take 700 grams Pork shoulder (block)
2. Make ready 1 thumb Ginger
3. Take 100 ml Soy sauce
4. Get 100 ml Sake
5. Make ready 100 ml Mirin
6. Get 1000 ml Water
7. Get 1 Salt and pepper

A good Char Siu should have a glossy surface with the trademark dark mahogany color. Try making this easy char siu at home! My ultimate comfort food is a bowl of fluffy rice, doused in sweet soy sauce with glistening glossy slices of Chinese bbq pork aka char siu. It was one of our go-to dinners growing up, same as almost all Chinese families out there because it's just so darn easy.

Steps to make Easy But Authentic Homemade Char Siu:

1. Season the block of meat with salt and pepper. (You don't need to wrap the meat with cooking twine.)
   1. Brown the surfaces of the meat in a frying pan. (Use medium-high heat.)
2. Once browned, place into a pot and fill with water until the meat is just barely covered. Add the soy sauce, sake, mirin, and grated ginger.
3. Once it begins to boil, lower the heat to low and simmer for 1-1.5 hours. When the meat has become tender, raise the heat to high and boil for 10-20 minutes to thicken the sauce.
4. When the sauce has reduced by about half, it's done. When it cools, grease will be released, so it will be more healthy if you wipe it away.
5. You can top it on rice to make a char siu rice bowl.
6. Use it as a ramen topping.

My ultimate comfort food is a bowl of fluffy rice, doused in sweet soy sauce with glistening glossy slices of Chinese bbq pork aka char siu. It was one of our go-to dinners growing up, same as almost all Chinese families out there because it's just so darn easy. Of course back then we would just head to our. If using a baking tray with a wire rack that fits inside, fill the tray with hot water (lower than the rack) and put the steak on the rack. Place the tray in the middle of the oven.

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