NuWave Brio - Char Siu

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Recipes
Char Siu
Serves: 6
Ingredients:
4 lbs pork belly, skin removed
4T char siu sauce
Sesame seeds
Homemade Char Siu Sauce:
2T Shaoxing cooking wine
2T oyster sauce
⅓c sugar
⅓c hoisin sauce
1-½T honey
½t 5-spice powder
Directions:
1. Combine wine, oyster sauce, sugar, hoisin sauce, honey, and 5-spice
powder in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil. Lower to a simmer
and allow the sauce to thicken slightly, about 10 minutes.
2. Cut belly into 4 equal pieces and rinse then pat dry with a paper towel.
3. Add the belly pieces and 4 tablespoons of homemade char siu sauce to a
resealable plastic bag. Marinate at least 24 hours in the fridge.
4. An hour to 1 ½ hours before cooking, remove pork belly pieces from
marinade. Save the marinade.
5. Place the pork belly pieces into the fryer basket. Set the fryer to 400°F and
cook for 10 minutes.
6. At the end of 10 minutes, baste the pork belly with the remaining marinade
and return to the fryer at 320°F for an additional 10 minutes. Once cooked,
remove pork belly and set aside to rest.
7. While pork belly is resting, add 3 tablespoons of char siu sauce with 5
tablespoons of water to a small saucepan and bring to a boil.
8. Slice pork belly and drizzle shar siu over the top of sliced pork belly then
dust with sesame seeds.