Chinese Barbecued Pork

Name: Chinese Barbecued Pork
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 4 pound, boneless pork butt (Boston butt), cut into 8 strips and excess fat removed, see illustrations below (also see illustrations for removing the bone from a bone-in pork butt, if necessary); 1/2 cup, sugar; 1/2 cup, soy sauce; 6 tablespoons, hoisin sauce; 1/4 cup, dry sherry; 1/4 teaspoon, ground white pepper; 1 teaspoon, five-spice powder; 1 tablespoon, toasted sesame oil; 2 tablespoons, grated fresh ginger (from 4- to 6-inch piece); 2 medium cloves, garlic, minced or pressed through a garlic press (about 2 teaspoons); 1/4 cup, ketchup; 1/3 cup, honey

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2007, America's Test Kitchen TV

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Chinese

Pork

Char siu is usually bought from stores and restaurants that specialize in such meat dishes, but our version is actually "barbecued" in the oven, making these lacquered strips of pork easier to make at home than they might seem.

SERVES6

TIME2¼ hours, plus 30 minutes marinating

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a Chinese barbecued pork recipe inspired by char siu, we started by slicing a boneless pork butt into strips. Our marinade of soy sauce, sherry, hoisin sauce, five-spice powder, sesame oil, ginger, and garlic introduced deep complexity,...

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