Char Siu

Name: Char Siu
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce; 2 cloves garlic; 2 scant tablespoons dark muscovado sugar; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 2 tablespoons prune juice; 2 tablespoons mushroom ketchup; 2 tablespoons light muscovado sugar; 2 tablespoons ginger wine or sweet sherry; 2 tablespoons honey; 2 tablespoons miso; 2 tablespoons mirin; 4 tablespoons soy sauce; 2 tablespoons tomato ketchup; 2 tablespoons soy sauce

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Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

How To Eat

By Nigella Lawson

Published 1998

About

This, to borrow from Dr Jonathan Miller, is not quite char siu, it’s just char siu-ish.

I’ve given a couple of different marinades for this basically Chinese-influenced barbecued pork. The first is adapted from Tiger Lily: Flavours of the Orient by Rani King and Chandra Khan; the second is just something I did with the ingredients I had lying about in the fridge.

In both instances, the pork – a tenderloin weighing jus

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