Roast Pork With Chinese Lettuce Recipes

CHINESE ROAST PORK (CHAR SIU)

Steps:

• First day preparation:
• To make the marinade, combine the first 8 ingredients in a freshly-sanitized plastic container just large enough to hold the pork snug - or - in a Ziploc plastic bag. Reserve 1/4 cup of marinade for glaze. Add the pork, turn well to coat, and refrigerate at least 24 hours and not longer than 48 hours.
• Second day preparation:
• Preheat oven to 450°F Set a pan filled with 1" water on the bottom rack.
• Combine the honey, 2 Tbs. soy, sesame oil, and 1/4 cup pork marinade in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Set aside.
• Place pork strips on broiler pan and put on rack above water pan. Roast 10 minutes.
• Brush with 1/3 of the glaze, roast 10 minutes more, and then lower the heat to 350°F
• Brush with half of remaining glaze and roast 10 minutes more.
• Brush with remaining glaze and turn off oven. Remove from oven after 5 minutes and cool to room temperature on a rack (if using for Bao; otherwise, serve it up!).

ROAST PORK WITH CHINESE LETTUCE

Steps:

• 1. Mince garlic, then combine with sugar, soy sauce, salt and pepper. Rub over pork and let stand 1 hour. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 350 degrees. 2. Place pork on a rack over a roasting pan containing several inches of water, and roast 1 hour. Meanwhile cut lettuce in 1-inch sections. 3. Remove pork and drain off fat. (Set rack aside.) Line bottom of pan with lettuce place pork on top. Return to oven and roast 45 minutes more.The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.