Char Siu Pork Fillet Lettuce Rolls

Name: Char Siu Pork Fillet Lettuce Rolls
Cuisine: African
Ingredients: 45 ml soy sauce; 45 ml honey; 45 ml hoi sin sauce; Ready bought plum sauce; 1 large iceberg lettuce, broken into leaves; fresh coriander leaves; 1 x 5 cm fresh ginger, peeled; 6 spring onions, trimmed; 2 pork fillets (400 to 450 g each); 15 ml 5 spice powder; 1 clove garlic, crushed; ½ cucumber

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Braai the Beloved Country

By Jean Nel

Published 2014

About

Let’s braai something straight out of Chinatown. It’s easy! All you need are a few Chinese grocery items. They last forever in the grocery cupboard.

Ingredients

2 pork fillets (400 to 450 g each)
15 ml 5 spice powder

Africa
Asia
China
South Africa
Main course

Method

Grate the ginger and squeeze out the juice in a non-metallic dish. Add the rest of the ingredients and stir. Trim any excess fat and membrane from the pork fillet. Add to the marinade, coat and marinate for a maximum of 2 hours (due to the high salt content – we don’t want any tough pork fillet).

Cut the cucumber in half lengthwise, scoop out the seeds and slice into long strips. Cut th