How To Make Chinese ‘Char Siu’ BBQ Pork - Marion's Kitchen

Summary by Krater

This video demonstrates how to make homemade Chinese barbecue pork using pork neck, a rich marinade with hoisin, Chinese five-spice, and beet root powder for color, and a simple basting sauce. The pork is marinated, baked with steam, basted, rested, and served sliced over rice with cucumber and green onion.

From the video

Answers: How do you make homemade Chinese barbecue pork?

• Chinese barbecue pork recipe
• Pork neck preparation
• Marinade making
• Basting and baking pork
• Using beet root powder for red color

Ingredients

• 1 large chunk pork neck
• hoisin
• Chinese wine
• honey
• brown sugar
• oyster sauce
• garlic
• Chinese five spice
• soy sauce
• 1 tsp salt
• beet root powder
• water
• steamed rice
• cucumber
• green onion

What it concludes

• Using pork neck instead of pork fillet or tenderloin prevents the meat from drying out in the oven and keeps it juicy.
• Beet root powder gives the pork a natural red color without using nasty additives.
• Pouring water on the bottom of the roasting tray helps steam the pork and keeps it juicy while preventing the marinade from burning.