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Char Sui Pork Chow Mein by

Tags: Asian

This is one your family will love, it’s cheap and very quick to make once the pork is cooked. You can change the pork to chicken for a faster dinner. Chop it the same size as the veg and cook 2 minutes before you add the veg. Char sui is Chinese BBQ pork. Most people are used to this from Chinese restaurants where it is very commonly very dry, tough and flavorless. This recipe will show you how to make proper Char sui pork from pork belly, the flavors will seriously blow you away. Be warned, you will never eat it from most Chinese restaurants again after!

Ingredients

1 lb pork belly or 1 chicken breast
12 oz Medium Egg Noodles
6 Tbsp Hoisin Sauce
3 spring onions
1 pepper diced, can use halves of multi colored peppers
1 red onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped or 2 tsp paste
1 inch piece of fresh ginger, chopped or 2 tsp paste
1/2 red chilli, chopped
100ml water
2 tsp fish sauce
2 tsp soy - not dark
Handful fresh coriander leaves - optional
Toasted sesame oil to serve - drizzle a little over like you would vinegar to chips for an
extra hit of flavour.
Optional 2 tbsp rapeseed oil

Instructions

1- Score the pork belly by cutting crisscrossing lines into the fat
2- Place the pork belly or chicken breast in a bowl then add half the hoisin, half the ginger paste and half the garlic paste. Rub in really well then cover and leave fo at least 1 hour, overnight would be best.
3- Preheat oven to 355 F
4- Cook the noodles per instructions, cool under cold water and set aside.
5- Place the pork on a baking tray and cook for 45 minutes - 1 hour depending on how thick it is. You want the top to be nice and crispy. Remove from the oven and allow to cool slightly
6- Dice the pork belly up into bite sized pieces. Do the same with the veg but keep it separate to the pork belly
7- Heat the rapeseed oil in your wok or pan then add the veggies and cook on a high heat for 3 minutes stirring all the time.
8- Add the pork belly and cook for 1 minute more.
9- Add the water, soy sauce, fish sauce and remaining hoisin sauce, stir really well then add drain the water from the noodles and add these too.
10- Stir the noodles really well to get the veg, pork and sauce to mix in as much as possible.
11- Taste and serve topped with fresh chopped coriander if happy

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