Chinese
Char Siu Style Pork
Char Siu Style Pork is Chinese home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 2 lb pork shoulder
- 1/4 cup hoisin sauce
- 3 tbsp soy sauce
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tsp five-spice powder
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp grated ginger
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp rice vinegar
- 4 cups cooked white rice
How to cook it
- Cut the pork into long strips about 2 inches thick.
- Whisk the hoisin, soy sauce, half the honey, five-spice, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, and rice vinegar, then coat the pork and marinate at least 20 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 400F and set the pork on a rack over a foil-lined pan.
- Roast for 25 minutes, then brush with the remaining honey and roast until caramelized and 145F inside, about 15 minutes more.
- Rest the pork 5 minutes, then slice against the grain.
- Serve over the warm rice with any pan juices spooned over.
Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Char Siu Style Pork, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Char Siu Style Pork carries gluten, soy, and sesame. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Turkey Lettuce Wraps |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Nothing comparable without it yet |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | Yes | Mapo Tofu |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains and Meat or fish
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Char Siu Style Pork takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on pork, hoisin, and garlic.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.