Soy Sauce Roast Ham

Name: Soy Sauce Roast Ham (See Siu Jue Bei)
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon salt; 6 garlic cloves, peeled, cut into ¼-inch slices; 4 teaspoons sugar; ¾ cup dark soy sauce; 8½ pounds fresh ham, shank half: have butcher remove the skin, but leave a thin layer of fat; ¼ teaspoon white pepper; 4 cups cold water

See Siu Jue Bei

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Chinese Banquet Cookbook

By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo

Published 1985

About

In China this dish is traditionally prepared by cooking a pork shoulder, with fat and skin intact, atop the stove with honey and soy sauce. It is quite greasy. My version eliminates virtually all of the fat and the ham is most tender.

Ingredients

8½ pounds fresh ham, shank half: have butcher remove the skin, but leave a thin layer of fat
6 garlic cloves, peeled, cut into ¼-inch slices
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Asia
China
Main course
Chinese New Year

Method

Preheat oven to 375°F. for 15 minutes.
Place ham in a roasting pan. Use a knife to cut slits in sides of ham, and insert slices of garlic into slits. Mix salt, soy sauce, sugar, and white pepper and use mixture to coat ham thoroughly. Pour