Roasted Pork Spare Rib

Preparation info
  • 4

    Serves
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

  • About

One of my favourite roasting meats is pork spare rib, although I don’t like too much red colouring in the meat. It indicates they are short on flavour and over-sweetened. I do love the taste of roasted caramel on the meat, which is achieved by what the Chinese call ‘catching the fire’. When the meat is three-quarters cooked, it is removed and then dipped in sugar syrup before being returned to the fire for another 10 minutes, which caramelises the glaze.

I first tried this pork spar

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