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Roast Pork

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/2 pounds shoulder of pork, best with some fat attached
  • 1 cup light soy sauce
  • 6 tablespoons sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoons brown bean paste, available in can at Asian grocery stores
  • 1 tablespoon hoi sin sauce, available in bottle
  • 1 teaspoon sesame oil
  • 2 tablespoons Chinese rose wine, sherry will do
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • red coloring optional
  • 1 tablespoon sesame paste, available at Asian grocery stores
  • 1/2 cup thick malt syrup, honey may be substituted

Directions

  1. Cut pork into long strips approximately 1 1/2 inches in diameter, make incision at intervals and lightly pound meat with a meat pounder.
  2. Put all the ingredients into a good size bowl and mix well. Marinate the pork for an hour.
  3. Remove pork and mount each piece on a skewer. Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.
  4. Grill for 15 minutes turning the meat half way through.
  5. Heat malt syrup a little water to melt. Remove pork from oven, brush pork with the melted malt syrup.
  6. Return pork to the oven and continue cooking for another 10 minutes.
  7. Remove pork, brush again with the malt syrup.
  8. Return pork to the oven for another 5 minutes.
  9. Serve, sliced into thin slices 1/4 inch or thinner.