Chinese Roasted Meats And Accompanying Recipes

Roasted Pork

Chinese roasted pork is delicious when served with steamed vegetables and rice. It’s also terrific when it’s sliced and served on a sandwich, preferably on a warm sweet roll with slices of cucumber and scallions with hoisin sauce instead of mayo. It is also the base of the filling for pork buns. (recipe included)

3/4 Tbsp sugar
1 1/2 Tbsp honey
1 1/2 Tbsp hoisin sauce
1 tsp oyster sauce
1/2 Tbsp soy sauce
1/4 tsp 5 spice powder
1/2 tsp sesame oil
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 lb pork tenderloin
1 extra Tbsp honey

Combine all of the ingredients up to the pork in a sauce pan
Simmer for 2 min, stirring constantly
Let the marinade cool
Pour it into a ziplock bag with the pork
Marinate in the refrigerator over night
Preheat oven to 350
Roast the pork for 25 min, saving the extra marinade to baste.
Add the extra Tbsp of honey to the marinade
Baste the pork halfway through roasting
Once it is fully cooked(check before you take it out) baste again and broil for 2-3 min until the marinade bubbles
Let it rest on the stove for 10 min before slicing

Steamed Pork Buns

These will disappear in minutes. They are amazingly delicious.

1 tsp active dry yeast
3 1/2 c cake flour
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
2 Tbsp diced pork fat
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
3 scallions, chopped
1 1/2 c diced roast pork
1 Tbsp sugar
3 Tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp Cornstarch

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Dissolve yeast in 1 1/4 c warm water
Set aside for 5 min
Combine flour, sugar and baking powder in a mixing bowl
Mix in dissolved yeast on low
Add pork fat, 1 piece at a time on med, until it becomes a dough. About 5 min
Cover with seran and let it rise. About 2 hrs
Punch the dough down
Knead for about 5 min. Until it feels elastic
Make 16 even balls
Cover with a damp cloth
Sauté the scallions in hot oil for about 2 min
Add pork,sugar, soy sauce and oyster sauce
Sauté , stirring constantly for about 5 min. Until scallions are soft
Dissolve the cornstarch in 2 Tbsp cold water and add to the mixture
Stir until thick about 1 min
Remove from heat
Take a ball of dough and make a well in it with your thumb
Fill the well with about a Tbsp of pork mixture
Pinch the dough together around the filling and place it upside down on parchment paper
Make a 1/2 inch across the top with a knife
Repeat that with each ball
Using a bamboo steamer over boiling water, steam the buns for about 12 min
They will puff up and look like bread when they are done
You can put them in the steamer on the parchment
Serve immediately

Roasted Duck

Chinese styled roasted duck is sensational. You can serve it with stir fried vegetables and low mein noodles. (stir fry the vegetable and toss in the precooked noodles and duck at the end) You can also serve it with steamed rice and vegetables. You can use roasted duck as a replacement for the pork in the buns also, or on a sandwich. Peking duck is slightly different but in a pinch, you can make the switch. Peking duck recipe follows.

Roasted Duck

1 5lb duck
2 Tbsp soy sauce
1 clove garlic, minced
1 1/2 tsp sugar
1 Tbsp honey
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1 Tbsp ginger powder

Combine all of the ingredients other than the duck and whisk thoroughly
Marinate the duck in the mixture for 1 hr at room temp
Preheat oven to 350
Roast for 2 hrs
Baste every 20-30 min with the drippings

Peking Duck

This is one of our absolute favorites!

1 5-6 lb duck
6 Tbsp honey
4 Tbsp Chinese 5 spice powder
2 Tbsp dark soy sauce
2 Tbsp brown sugar
1 Tbsp cornstarch
6 Tbsp hoisin sauce
2 Tbsp super fine sugar
1 pkg Chinese moo shu pancakes or Peking duck buns (available at Asian markets or on line)
3 scallions, sliced lengthwise
1 cucumber, sliced into thick sticks

Poke the skin of the duck all over with a knife
Rinse well and dry it off
Combine 6 Tbsp water, 5 spice, soy sauce and brown sugar
Brush the mixture over the duck inside and out, spreading out the wings and brushing them too
Let it stand for 10 min and repeat until you have about 4 Tbsp left over
Save it for later in the refrigerator
Let the basted duck marinate in the refrigerator overnight, uncovered
Heat the oven to 350
Roast the duck for 45 min
Flip it over and baste it with the remaining marinade
Roast for 45 more min. Until the skin looks crispy
Check on it as it cooks to make sure that it doesn’t burn
In the meantime, make the sauce
Dissolve the cornstarch in 1 Tbsp cold water and set it aside
In a sauce pan, heat hoisin, sugar, soy sauce and sesame oil
Whisk in cornstarch mix
Heat until it thickens. About 1-2 min
On each pancake, place a dollop of sauce, a couple of slices of duck with the crisp skin, a couple of sticks of cucumber and a couple of slices of scallion
Roll it up and serve immediately