Chinese Grilled Pork Recipes

GRILLED CHINESE PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine the first six ingredients. Place the pork in a large resealable plastic bag; add half of the marinade. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 2 hours, turning occasionally. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade for basting., Drain and discard marinade. Grill pork, covered, over hot heat for 15-20 minutes or until a thermometer reads 160° and juices run clear, basting occasionally with reserved marinade.

CHAR SIU (CHINESE BBQ PORK)

Steps:

• Cut pork with the grain into strips 1 1/2- to 2-inches long; put into a large resealable plastic bag.
• Stir soy sauce, honey, ketchup, brown sugar, rice wine, hoisin sauce, red food coloring or red bean curd (see Cook's Note), and Chinese five-spice powder together in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Cook and stir until just combined and slightly warm, 2 to 3 minutes. Pour the marinade into the bag with the pork, squeeze air from the bag, and seal. Turn bag a few times to coat all pork pieces in marinade.
• Marinate pork in refrigerator, 2 hours to overnight.
• Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat and lightly oil the grate.
• Remove pork from marinade and shake to remove excess liquid. Discard remaining marinade.
• Cook pork on preheated grill for 20 minutes. Put a small container of water onto the grill and continue cooking, turning the pork regularly, until cooked through, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 145 degrees F (63 degrees C).

CHINESE BARBEQUE PORK (CHAR SIU)

Steps:

• Place soy sauce, honey, rice wine, hoisin sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, garlic, five-spice powder, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and curing salt in a saucepan. Bring to a boil on high heat; reduce heat to medium-high. Cook for 1 minute. Remove from heat. Cool to room temperature.
• Cut pork roast in half lengthwise. Cut each half again lengthwise forming 4 long, thick pieces of pork.
• Transfer cooled sauce to a large mixing bowl. Stir in red food coloring. Place pork sections into sauce and coat each piece. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate 4 to 12 hours.
• Preheat grill for medium heat, 275 to 300 degrees F (135 to 150 degrees C) and lightly oil the grate. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Remove sections of pork from marinade and let excess drip off. Place on prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with kosher salt to taste.
• Transfer pork sections to grate over indirect heat on prepared grill. Cover and cook about 45 minutes. Brush with marinade; turn. Continue cooking until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center reads 185 and 190 degrees F, about 1 hour and 15 minutes more. Do not use any more marinade on cooked meat until after you boil it.
• Place leftover marinade in saucepan; bring to a boil; let simmer 1 minutes. Remove from heat. Now you can use it to brush over the cooked pork.

GRILLED CHINESE PORK CHOPS

Steps:

• Prepare the pork chops by removing all of the fat.
• Then poke both sides of each chop with a fork.
• Place the chops in a container with a tight fitting lid to be marinated.
• In a separate bowl, mix together thoroughly all of the ingredients for the marinade.
• Pour the marinade over the pork chops and stir them to coat.
• Place them in the refrigerator and marinate overnight.
• When you are ready to cook the chops, pre heat the grill to medium high.
• Once the grill is hot remove the chops from the marinade and immediately place them on the grill.
• Reserve the marinade in the container and let the pork chops sit for 2 minutes.
• After 2 minutes, rotate the chops, don't flip them yet.
• Just turn them to make nice grill marks on the one side.
• Then using the reserved marinade, lightly baste each pork chop.
• Let them cook another 2 minutes and then flip them.
• Lightly baste again with the remaining marinade.
• After another 2 minutes, rotate them to create grill marks on the other side and lightly baste them one more time.
• After 2 more minutes check to make sure that the internal temperature of each pork chop has reached 140 degrees.
• Once they are done, remove them from the heat, cover them with foil and let them sit for about 10 minutes and then serve.

CHINESE GRILLED PORK

Steps:

• finely chop celery, carrot, and onion.
• whisk together all ingredients except oil and marinate pork in mixture for 48 hours.
• remove pork from marinade.
• strain marinade into pot and reduce until thick and bubbly.
• brush pork with 1 tbp sesame oil and grill, basting with reduced marinade.

GRILLED CHINESE PORK

Steps:

• If using broiler, turn it on, and cover broiler pan with aluminum foil.
• Wash, dry and trim excess fat from pork. Cut in half crosswise.
• In bowl large enough to hold meat, combine soy sauce, sherry and lemon juice. Grate ginger, and add.
• Turn pork in marinade to coat.
• If using stove-top grill, prepare. Grill or broil pork, browning on all sides, basting with marinade once or twice. Cook 7 to 10 minutes, until pork is slightly pink inside. Slice and serve.