Saturday 2 March - Char Siu Pork

Another Saturday visit to the Chinese Supermarket in Portsmouth, so Char Siu Pork was on the cards, with an alternative of squid for George who isn't keen on roasted meats.

I have several recipes for Char Siu, but always end up going back to the Sophie Grigson one from her Meat book.

The main ingredients for the marinade are yellow bean sauce, hoi sin sauce and some horrible slimy red bean curd which gives the marinade it's amazing colour.

These are mixed with sugar, soy, garlic, and some rice wine, and the meat was left to marinade for as long as possible.

This was then roasted and drizzed with honey, and served with thai jasmine rice and some stir fried chinese greens and mushrooms.

For George I gutted and prepared 6 baby squid.

 

These were stir fried for a minute with garlic, chilli, salt and pepper and served with a pickled cucumber salad.

For desert, we made a big tub of mango sorbet, and served this with some fresh mango and lychees.