Name: Chinese BBQ Sauce (Cha Shao Jiang)
Yield: Makes ½ cup (125 ml)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon Chinese rose wine, rice wine, or sherry; ½ teaspoon Chinese five spice powder; 1½ tablespoons soy sauce; 3 dashes white pepper; 1½ tablespoons hoisin sauce; 1½ tablespoons honey; ½ teaspoon sesame oil; 1½ tablespoons maltose

Preparation info

Makes
½ cup

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Easy Chinese Recipes

By Bee Yinn Low

Published 2011

About

My good friend, Shirley Lim, came up with this savory, rich, and absolutely addictive Chinese BBQ Sauce, with the perfect ratio of the four key ingredients: maltose, honey, hoisin sauce, and soy sauce. Chinese rose wine is another secret ingredient used in this recipe. The higher alcohol content and distilled rose petals in the rose wine deliver an incredible dimension of flavor to the sauce. Once you try this sauce, you will probably never go back to the bottled instant ch