And we are the dumpling sisters welcome to our kitchen and also a very happy

Chinese New Year to all of you. So Julie and I consulted Google

and it told us that this year is the year of the sheep / goat

But we're actually doing pork today. Now the kind of pork we're doing

is the iconic Cantonese char siu pork which is perfect for banqueting or celebration dishes

Just like Chinese new year dinner so let's get started

We love making char siu pork even when it's not for celebrations cause it's such an incredibly simple

recipe. So first of all we're going to marinate the pork and here I have

800g of pork shoulder just cut into chunky

long strips and we're going to roast them in the oven like this once

it's absorbed all the delicious flavours. So into the pork goes half a tablespoon of honey

half a tablespoon of light soy sauce, one and a half tablespoons of

dark soy sauce, half a tablespoon of

delicious rice wine

one tablespoon of hoisin

1 teaspoon of sesame oil for fragrance, half a teaspoon of

ground white pepper and if you have it some 5 spice powder just a pinch will do

3 tablespoons of soft brown sugar which will caramelize

up to a beautiful crust in the oven, and one clove of garlic roughly chopped

And there you have it, now we're just going to make sure that every single piece of

pork is coated in this delicious marinade

There's some sexy pork

Now doesn't that look delicious already?

So just cover it with cling film and leave it in the fridge to marinate overnight

if you can but four hours at least

So this bowl of pork has been marinating overnight

And we're going to get it ready for the oven so what I usually do

is line the tray with some baking paper or tin foil to make sure you catch all the drippings

and it's a good idea to have one of these racks on top as well because you want to give the pork a chance

to crunch up all over

Now do keep this marinade aside because we're going to use it to keep basting the pork

as it cooks later

So at about 20 minutes through, about half way, we're ready to have a little peak at these

and baste them so here's our pork

looking lovely already, all we're going to do is

take some of that marinading liquid that we made up before

and ideally you'd actually have a brush for this but alas ours broke

this morning so we're just going to use a spoon and all you want to do

is kind of drizzle it on top, aw look at that

bathing in that glorious red sauce

and then you just flip and do the other side

so we just pop that back in for another 20 minutes before my favourite part

the honey. To finish off the pork we're going to drizzle it

with a delicious honey glaze which is literally just honey and water

So a good amount in there and just loosen it up

about the same amount of hot water, so about 2 tablespoons of each

Give it a mix

Switch your oven to the grill setting

and slather that honey glaze on top

Shift the tray up to the top shelf

repeat on the other side and leave to grill until you get a lovely crust

And there we have it, our char siu pork

So the pork is traditionally sliced up really thinly and served on top of things like rice

and that's what we're going to do today

but if you really wanted to, you could very easy

just tuck into this with a knife and fork or even just with your fingers

Now although we're dying to dig in we always give the tray a good scrape first because there's this

lovely delicious sauce in the bottom. So if you guys like the look of this one

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So there you have it guys, the dumpling sisters roast pork, the perfect recipe for Chinese new year

and actually this dish would go really well with our iced chrysanthemum tea

the recipe for which you can find on drinks tube right now, just click this button up here

You must try too. And if you guys want

another great recipe for Chinese new year make sure you check out our potsticker recipe

also on FoodTube. Still chewing

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