3 Ingredients Easy Pork Char Siu

Easy pork char siu or Chinese BBQ pork which available in any Chinese restaurant menu. This recipe is simple to make using ready-to-use Lee Kum Kee Char Siu sauce that is widely available in any supermarket.

This char siu recipe has a similar taste to Filipino tocino, the bacon of the Philippines. Tocino is a sweet red cured pork, we serve this for breakfast with garlic rice and matched with fried eggs.

The best meat for char siu is pork belly, pork shoulder, or pork butt sliced thinly around one centimeter thick. Best to marinate the meat overnight for tasty and yummy char siu. This taste like tocino if you add 4-5 gloves of chopped garlic and season with pepper.

How to Make Char Siu - Chinese BBQ pork

Ingredients to make char siu

• 500-gram pork shoulder (pork belly, pork butt) sliced thinly 1cm thick
• 4 tablespoon Lee Kum Kee Char Siu sauce
• 4-5 cloves garlic chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 tablespoon oil

Instruction on how to cook char siu

• In a large bowl add pork, Lee Kum Kee Char Siu sauce, garlic, and pepper and mix well to combine.
• Marinade overnight.
• Heat the wok over medium heat and add marinated pork.
• Add water and let it simmer for 10 minutes while stirring occasionally.
• When the water starts to evaporate add oil to fry the meat.
• Cook for another 5 minutes or until cooked.
• Serve with garlic rice, bread rolls, steamed bao buns, and salad add to your soup.

What to serve with easy pork char siu?

Serve pork char siu with your steamed rice, salads, Vietnamese bread rolls, steamed bao buns, or added to your soup. I served mine with pandesal a Filipino sweet bread added some lettuce, shredded cucumber, and carrots, similar to Vietnamese banh mi a Filipino-style Bahn mi.