Name: Chinese Pork Asado BBQ (Char Siu)
Yield: 5 servings
Ingredients: 1 cup soy sauce; 4 tbsp honey; 1 cup hoisin sauce; 4 tbsp palm sugar or brown sugar; 4 tbsp cooking wine; 2 tbsp chopped garlic; 1 tsp red food coloring; 1 tbsp five spice powder; 1 kg pork tenderloin; 1 kg sliced pork belly (liempo); 3 tbsp cooking oil

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In a deep bowl, combine soy sauce, honey, hoisin sauce, sugar, wine, garlic, food color, and five spice powder. Whisk well.

2

Put pork pieces on a shallow bowl and pour half of the sauce. Cover and let it marinate for 3 hours or overnight for best results. (Keep the other half of the marinade mixture in a container and refrigerate.)

3

After marinating, drain pork and discard the marinade.

4

Put oil in a hot pan, and fry pork for 1 minute, turn over and make sure that all sides are seared. Add the reserved sauce onto the pan and let simmer for 5 minutes. Remove pork and leave the sauce to simmer until desired thickness is achieved.

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Line baking pan with aluminum foil or parchment paper. Place pork in baking pan and brush with sauce. Bake in a preheated 176°C oven for 10 to 15 minutes. Rotate pork pieces and baste 2 to 3 times. Remove from oven and allow it to cool down.

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