Chinese Char Siu BBQ Pork Rice

Chinese Char Siu BBQ Pork Rice

• July 19, 2022

A classic Hong Kong dish that can so easily be made at home. The home version doesn't have to be fancy like the shop-bought ones, so you can leave out the red food colouring and honey glaze. You'll have a tasty family meal ready in no time with minimal effort. 

A fried egg and drizzle of sweet soya sauce is the perfect combo with Chinese Char Siu BBQ Pork, but if you don't have sweet soya sauce to hand, you can quickly make your own by mixing 1 teaspoon of soya sauce to 1/2 teaspoon sugar. 

This is the 6th recipe in my blog series "Chinese Food on a Budget: Feed a Family of 4 for £30 a week". Pork shoulder is excellent value for money for such a big pack of meat, but is often overlooked compared to pork chop, pork belly and ribs. This is definitely a great cut of meat to help stretch out the family meal budget.  

The pack I bought has 6 pieces of pork for £4.10 from Sainsbury's. Take one piece of pork out and save for next day's meal, since 5 pieces of pork is more that enough for our family of 4 with 2 young kids. 

Round up the ingredients.

Peel the ginger, cut into slices and then roughly chop all over.

Save a piece of pork first, then marinade the rest with hoisin sauce, soya sauce, oyster sauce, 5 spice powder, white pepper and sugar. 

Scoop up the chopped ginger using your hands and squeeze the ginger juice all over the pork. Use hands to massage in the condiments into the pork and mix well. Add half a cup of water around the pork and then roast in oven for 20 minutes. Then, switch to grill setting and grill for another 6 minutes.

Ingredients:

5 pieces of pork shoulder steaks

3 eggs

2 inch piece of ginger

1 tbsp hoisin sauce

2 tbsp soya sauce

1 tbsp oyster sauce

1/2 tsp 5 spice powder

1/2 tsp ground white pepper

1 tbsp sugar

1/2 cup water

3 tsp oil

Directions:
1) Steam rice according to instructions

2) Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius

3) Peel the ginger, cut ginger into slices and then roughly chop all over

4) Lay pork into a roasting tin. Scoop up the chopped ginger using your hands and squeeze as hard as possibly to release the ginger juice all over the pork. You can put the ginger back onto the chopping board to roughly chop again, and then repeat the scoop and squeeze to release extra ginger juice. You can discard the ginger, or you can add directly to the pork if you don't mind the ginger bits

5) Add hoisin sauce, soya sauce, oyster sauce, 5 spice powder, white pepper and sugar to the pork. Using your hands, massage the condiments into the pork and mix well. Ensure the pork is laying evenly across the roasting tin, then add half a cup of water around the pork

6) Put the roasting tin into the preheated oven and roast for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, switch to the grill function and grill for 6 more minutes. Take pork out of oven, let it rest for 5-10 mins and then chop into slices

7) For the eggs, add 1 tsp of oil to a frying and fry 1 egg at a time, sunny side up

8) Serve with rice 

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