Tex's Chinese BBQ Grilled Pork Cheesesteak 🐷🍞🧀🍲

Name: Tex's Chinese BBQ Grilled Pork Cheesesteak 🐷🍞🧀🍲
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 piece pork loin steak; 1/2 large onion (sliced); 75 grams mature cheddar (sliced); 1 large burger bun, or an English oven bottom muffin; 1 skewer; flour for breading; 1 tbsp olive oil; 2 teaspoons butter (optional); ✴ ✴; 🍶 bbq sauce 🍶; 1/4 cup ketchup; 1 1/2 tsp mustard; 1/4 cup hoi sin sauce; 1 tsp Chinese 5 spice; 1 1/2 tbsp apple juice; 2 tsp groundnut oil; 1 tsp light soy sauce

Tex @cook_3903024

Manchester, England

I've recently developed a passion for American hot sandwiches. Hot sandwiches have never taken off in Britain like they did in the US (we seem that have gone down the savoury pie route), so when I wanted to try a po'boy or a cheesesteak, I had to trawl around looking for recipes.
I also love Chinese food, but had the same problem in the early 80s.There were very few Chinese restaurants where I lived, and none of them did delivery. I ended up buying a wok, a cleaver, a book, studying Ken Hom on TV, and learning to cook good food. This is what sparked my interest in cooking.
So this is my tribute to both using mostly British ingredients.

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Ingredients

40 mins

1 serving

1 piecepork loin steak
1/2large onion (sliced)
75 gramsmature cheddar (sliced)
1large burger bun, or an English oven bottom muffin
1skewer
flour for breading
1 tbspolive oil
2 teaspoonsbutter (optional)
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🍶 bbq sauce 🍶
1/4 cupketchup
1 1/2 tspmustard
1/4 cuphoi sin sauce
1 tspChinese 5 spice
1 1/2 tbspapple juice
2 tspgroundnut oil
1 tsplight soy sauce

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Steps

40 mins

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Combine all the ingredients for the BBQ sauce in a jug and stir well. Take your pork from the fridge and allow to sit on kitchen paper for 10-15 min to reach room temperature
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Coat the pork steak in a little flour then spoon on the sauce, sear for 1½ minutes each side, on a very hot griddle, barbecue, or in a skillet
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Allow to rest for 3-4 minutes then cut into thick slices
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While your meat is resting, begin cooking your onions, in the same pan if you used a skillet earlier. Turn the heat down to low and drop your onions in with a little butter and olive oil. Cook for 10 minutes or until they begin to soften. Add a splash of red wine vinegar and a little brown sugar if you want them to caramelise slightly
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While your onions are cooking, skewer your pork, and coat in the sauce again
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Remove the onions when soft and set to one side on kitchen paper
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Toast your bun or muffin on the inside, to add a little crunch to the sandwich
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Place the skewer under an overhead grill on high heat (aka as a salamander or in the US, a broiler), or on a barbecue, or griddle. Baste with the BBQ sauce, and cook for 8 minutes, turning and basting every 3 minutes.
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Heat your skillet to low, then pull your meat from the skewers and drop in the pan. Form into a shape and size similar to that of your bun or muffin
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Pile the onion on top, then cover with enough sliced cheese to cover. Cover with a pan lid so that the cheese melts quickly but still stays bubbly from the steam and the reflected heat
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After 3-4 minutes the cheese should have melted nicely. Transfer your cheesesteak carefully to your sliced bun with a spatula (or two). Season and close the lid. Finally, dig in!
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Tex @cook_3903024

on October 25, 2015 23:57

Manchester, England

I'm a designer/artist and I learned to cook when I started making my own Chinese food over 30 years ago. I'm a lover of my native British food, but recently I've developed a taste for American comfort food, especially sandwiches and BBQ (watching too much 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives' probably). 😸 Unfortunately, we don't have any independent US-style diners or drive-ins in my neck of the woods, so I had to learn from recipe books and the Food Network. I'll also be publishing some traditional UK classics in case any non-Brits want to have a crack at Brit grub.