Honey glazed char siu BBQ pork
Ingredients
Pork
- 3 lbs coppa or boneless Boston butt pork
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 cup oyster sauce
- 2/3 cup hoisin sauce
- 3 tablespoons ginger, finely chopped
- 1 tablespoons sesame oil
- 1 cube red fermented beancurd, mashed (optional)
- ½ teaspoon red liquid food colouring (optional)
Glaze
- 1/3 cup maltose (optional)
- 1/3 cup honey
Directions
- Slice the pork coppa into long slices, about 1 inch thick, following the grain of the meat.
- Make the marinade by mixing oyster sauce, hoisin, ginger, sesame oil, fermented tofu, and food colouring.
- Mix with pork and let marinate as little as 3 hours, preferably overnight.
- Place a heatproof rack on a baking sheet.
- Preheat over to 300 f, bake for 25-30 minutes on the middle rack height.
- For the glaze, using a warm and wet spoon, (dip spoon in a mug of hot tap water) scoop out maltose and microwave on high for 30 seconds to loosen.
- Then incorporate honey.
- Remove pork from the oven, set oven to broil
- Baste with cooking juices, then drizzle the glaze evenly over the meat and put under broiler until gently charred at the tips
- Flip over and repeat basting and drizzle glaze, then broil until charred tips.
- Rest char siu for 5 minutes then slice thinly across the grain.
