Easy But Authentic Homemade Char Siu

Name: Easy But Authentic Homemade Char Siu
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 700 grams Pork shoulder (block); 1 thumb Ginger; 100 ml Soy sauce; 100 ml Sake; 100 ml Mirin; 1000 ml Water; 1 Salt and pepper

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Homemade char siu is delicious but it takes quite a bit of time. So I came up with a way to make it easy and with only a few ingredients.

-If you add leftover Japanese leek or onion, the flavor will be even richer!
-Please adjust the amount of ingredients to suit your tastes. Recipe by kaorixmei

Homemade char siu is delicious but it takes quite a bit of time. So I came up with a way to make it easy and with only a few ingredients.

-If you add leftover Japanese leek or onion, the flavor will be even richer!
-Please adjust the amount of ingredients to suit your tastes. Recipe by kaorixmei

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

Homemade char siu is delicious but it takes quite a bit of time. So I came up with a way to make it easy and with only a few ingredients.

-If you add leftover Japanese leek or onion, the flavor will be even richer!
-Please adjust the amount of ingredients to suit your tastes. Recipe by kaorixmei

Homemade char siu is delicious but it takes quite a bit of time. So I came up with a way to make it easy and with only a few ingredients.

-If you add leftover Japanese leek or onion, the flavor will be even richer!
-Please adjust the amount of ingredients to suit your tastes. Recipe by kaorixmei

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Ingredients

3 servings

700 gramsPork shoulder (block)
1thumb Ginger
100 mlSoy sauce
100 mlSake
100 mlMirin
1000 mlWater
1Salt and pepper

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Steps

1

Season the block of meat with salt and pepper. (You don't need to wrap the meat with cooking twine.)
2

Brown the surfaces of the meat in a frying pan. (Use medium-high heat.)
3

Once browned, place into a pot and fill with water until the meat is just barely covered. Add the soy sauce, sake, mirin, and grated ginger.
4

Once it begins to boil, lower the heat to low and simmer for 1-1.5 hours. When the meat has become tender, raise the heat to high and boil for 10-20 minutes to thicken the sauce.
5

When the sauce has reduced by about half, it's done. When it cools, grease will be released, so it will be more healthy if you wipe it away.
6

You can top it on rice to make a char siu rice bowl.
7

Use it as a ramen topping.