Best Cantonese Pork Recipes

CANTONESE PORK

Steps:

• In a large shallow bowl, combine the first 10 ingredients and, if desired, red food coloring. Cut pork roast lengthwise in half. Add pork; turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate at least 24 hours., Transfer pork and marinade to a 5-qt. slow cooker. Cook, covered, on low 3-4 hours or until a thermometer inserted in roast reads 145° and meat is tender. Let roast stand for 10-15 minutes before slicing.

CANTONESE BARBECUED PORK

Steps:

• In bowl, stir together sherry, ginger root, oyster sauce, five-spice powder, soy sauce, white sugar, sugar, hoisin sauce, ketchup and cinnamon.
• Cut pork into 5x2 inch strips. Place strips flat in a shallow baking dish. Pour marinade over pork strips. Let pork marinate at least 6 hours in refrigerator.
• Drain, reserving marinade. Mix honey and 3 tablespoon reserved marinade in a small bowl; set aside. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Fill a shallow roasting pan with water and place in bottom of oven. Carefully place pork strips on a roasting rack above roasting pan so all sides are exposed to heat. If you don't have a roasting rack, insert the curved end of an S-shaped hook, paper clip, or drapery hook in pork strips and hang them from the top shelf.
• Roast for 30 minutes. Baste pork strips with honey mixture. Roast 15 minutes and baste again. Roast 10 minutes longer or until pork strips are crisp and golden brown. Remove from oven and let cool.

CANTONESE SWEET-AND-SOUR PORK

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first 8 ingredients; set aside., In a large skillet, brown pork in oil in batches. Transfer to a 3- or 4-qt. slow cooker. Pour tomato sauce mixture over pork. Cover and cook on low for 7-8 hours or until meat is tender., Add pineapple; cover and cook 30 minutes longer or until heated through. Serve with rice.

CANTONESE STYLE PORK AND SHRIMP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the pork, watercress, water chestnuts, green onion, oyster sauce, sesame oil, garlic, soy sauce, ground white pepper and salt and mix together well.
• Place 1/2 teaspoonful of this filling onto each dumpling skin. Place 1 shrimp on the filling, slightly wet the edge of the dumpling skin, fold over and pinch with your fingers to form a seal all the way around.
• To cook: Pan fry the dumplings in a large skillet over medium heat with oil for 15 minutes, turning over halfway through OR Place them in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes; drain and serve in hot chicken broth.

CANTONESE PORK SPARERIBS (BBQ)

Steps:

• Prepare ribs by removing the membrane.
• Combine all the marinade ingredients in a sauce pan and warm slightly so sugar dissolves and corn starch incorporates.
• Pour over ribs and marinade in refrigerator for 3-4 days. Turn ribs occasionally to ensure even marinating.
• Remove ribs and bring to room temperature. Reserve the marinade.
• Heat grill/smoker to 200-225 degrees F.
• Cook ribs on grill using indirect heat method. Use apple, cherry, pecan, or mesquite wood for smoke. Cooking time should be around 1.5 - 2 hours. Turn and brush with marinade occasionally. Ribs are done when bones pull free from meat when twisted.
• Combine ingredients for glaze.
• Remove ribs and brush with glaze. Let stand for 15 minutes. Sprinkle with sesame seeds just before serving.

BBQ CANTONESE PORK TENDERLOIN

Steps:

• Combine all the marinade ingredients in a large Zip lock bag.
• Place bag in a bowl.
• Put Pork in the bag and seal.
• Let stand at room temperature for 4 hours (if you wish to marinate longer or if it is a hot day marinate in the fridge) Turn the bag often Reserve the marinade for basting Cook meat about 4 inches from the heat source.
• If you wish, you can broil in your oven if you do not want to BBQ Turn often to brown the meat evenly and cook until crisp,basting often.
• About 40 min but it depends on the thickness of the tenderloin so check internal temp with your meat thermometer to be sure you do not over cook it.
• Slice pork thinly and serve immediately.

CANTONESE SWEET AND STICKY BBQ PORK CHOPS WITH APPLE AND ARUGULA SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together the sugar, hoisin, ketchup, oyster sauce, sherry, ginger, five-spice powder, and food coloring, if using. Set the marinade aside.
• Place the pork chops in a shallow baking dish. Pour the marinade over the pork. Let the pork marinate while you prepare the salad or up to overnight in the refrigerator. (The longer it marinates, the better the flavor.)
• Transfer the pork marinade to a small saucepan. Stir in the honey until completely combined. Bring to a boil and reserve this sauce for serving.
• Meanwhile, preheat a grill or grill pan over high heat until hot, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Wipe excess marinade from the pork chops. Grease the grill or grill pan with vegetable oil right before adding the chops. Grill the chops until golden brown with some grill marks on the bottom, 5 to 8 minutes. Flip the chops over and cook until the internal temperature reaches about 145 degrees F, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and let rest for at least 8 minutes. Smother the chops with some of the reserved sauce, slice into 1/2-inch wide pieces then drizzle with some more of the sauce. Serve with the apple and arugula salad.
• For the salad: Peel, quarter, core and thinly slice the apples. Combine with the remaining salad ingredients in a large bowl.
• For the dressing: Combine all of the ingredients in a mason jar and shake vigorously. Taste and adjust the seasonings, as needed.
• Toss the salad with the dressing and serve immediately.

CANTONESE STYLE PORK AND SHRIMP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the pork, watercress, water chestnuts, green onion, oyster sauce, sesame oil, garlic, soy sauce, ground white pepper and salt and mix together well.
• Place 1/2 teaspoonful of this filling onto each dumpling skin. Place 1 shrimp on the filling, slightly wet the edge of the dumpling skin, fold over and pinch with your fingers to form a seal all the way around.
• To cook: Pan fry the dumplings in a large skillet over medium heat with oil for 15 minutes, OR bake at 425 for 15 minutes, turning over halfway through OR Place them in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes; drain and serve in hot chicken broth or sweet and sour sauce.

CANTONESE PORK CHOPS

Steps:

• Grease a baking dish.
• In a shallow dish, combine breadcrumbs, flour and seasoning salt (or regular salt) pepper and garlic powder.
• Dip the pork chops in milk, then into breadcrumb mixture.
• Brown in hot oil on both sides; drain fat.
• Place the pork chops in prepared baking dish.
• To make the sauce: In the same frypan sauté onion and garlic for about 5-6 minutes.
• Add in tomatoes with juice, and remaining ingredients (with green pepper) bring to a boil, and simmer about 15 minutes.
• Mix cornstarch with cold water.
• Add into tomato mixture, and cook, stirring until thickened (about 5 minutes).
• Pour the sauce over the pork chops in the baking dish; toss lightly to coat the chops.
• Cover and bake in a 325°F oven for about 35-40 minutes, or until pork chops are tender.

CANTONESE CHAR SIU PORK AND VEGETABLE SPRING ROLLS

Steps:

• To make the filling, combine the sugar, salt, white pepper, soy sauce, oyster sauce, and water in a small bowl. Stir this flavoring sauce well and set aside.
• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the scallions and cook, stirring, for about 30 seconds until soft and aromatic. Add the cabbage, celery, and carrot, stirring to combine well. Cook, stirring frequently, for about 1 minute, until the vegetables have collapsed slightly. Add the flavoring sauce, stirring to combine, and continue cooking for about 2 minutes, until most of the liquid has disappeared and the vegetables have just cooked through. Add the pork and continue cooking, stirring to combine the flavors and heat through, about 1 minute. Give the cornstarch a final stir, and pour over the filling mixture. Cook for about 30 seconds, to bind the mixture nicely. Transfer to a platter and spread out. Set aside to cool completely before using. You should have about 3 cups. (The filling can be prepared 2 days in advance, covered, and refrigerated after cooling. Return to room temperature before wrapping.)
• Before assembling the spring rolls, line a baking sheet with parchment paper and lightly dust with cornstarch. For each spring roll, use about 1/4 cup of filling, placing it slightly below the center of the skin. Follow the directions on page 75 to create the cigar shape, taking care to not wrap too tightly because you want just two layers of skin around the filling. Before rolling up the spring roll all the way to seal it, brush beaten egg on the upper two edges to ensure that the skin seals well. Set the finished rolls, seam side up, on the prepared baking sheet. Cover with a kitchen towel to prevent drying.
• Fry the rolls in two stages. Heat 1 inch of oil in a wok, saucepan, or deep skillet over medium-high heat to about 350°F on a deep-fry thermometer. (If you don't have a deep-fry thermometer, stick a dry bamboo chopstick into the oil; if bubbles rise immediately to the surface and encircle the chopstick, the oil is ready.) Slide in few spring rolls and fry for about 1 1/2 minutes, turning as needed, until light golden. Remove from the oil and drain on paper towels. Repeat with the other rolls. These rolls soft en as they sit, so after their first frying, refry them for 45 to 60 seconds in 350°F oil until crispy and golden brown.
• Serve hot, whole or cut in half diagonally, with the dipping sauce of your choice.

CANTONESE PORK

Steps:

• Cut tenderloins in half, lengthwise. Then cut into 1/4 inch slices. Heat oil in a large skillet and brown slices over medium low heat.
• Place pork in crockpot. Add remaining ingredients, except rice. Cook on high for 4 hours or 6 to 8 hours on low.
• Serve over hot cooked rice.

TOMATO CANTONESE PORK CHOPS

Steps:

• Mix together bread crumbs, flour, salt, pepper and garlic powder (if using).
• Dip chops into half and half cream (or milk if using).
• Then coat the pork chops in the flour/bread crumb mixture.
• Brown in oil over medium heat; drain oil, and set the chops in a greased shallow casserole dish.
• To make the sauce: slice the onion in half lengthwise, and then slice finely to form half rings.
• Brown the onion in oil.
• In a small bowl/cup mix the cornstarch with water.
• Add in the cornstarch mixture and the tomatoes, with the remaining ingredients; mix to combine with a wooden spoon, and bring to a boil.
• Pour over the pork chops in the baking dish.
• Cover with foil and bake in a 325°F oven for about 30 minutes.

CANTONESE PORK CHOW MEIN

Steps:

• Brown meat in oil. Push meat aside, add garlic, onion, pepper, saute until onion is soft.
• Combine corn starch, low-sodium soy sauce and broth, add to skillet. Cook until thickens and add stir-fry or chow mein vegetables to heat.
• Serve with chow mein noodles or fried rice, or also in flour tortillas for pork fajita tacos, if you prefer and enjoy.

CHAR SIU (CANTONESE ROAST PORK)

Steps:

• 1. Divide the pork into 4 strips. Leave any fat on, because it is delicately succulent when roasted.
• 2. MARINADE: In a large bowl mix together the sauces, sugar, wine or sherry and salt. Put pork in an let marinade for 4 hours, turning every 30 minutes.
• 3. Preheat oven to 375-degrees. Place the strips side by side on a wire rack in the top third of the oven with a tray of water beneath to catch juices. (Prevents burning of juices and keeps pork moist)
• 4. Roast for 25-30 minutes, at the end of that time the pork should reddish brown on top. Remove from oven and dip each piece back in marinade and return to oven with the bottom side up.
• 5. Lower oven temperature to 350-degrees and continue to roast for another 25-30 minutes. Insert a chopstick into thickest part and if no oink juices run out the pork is cooked.
• 6. Transfer to another wire tack. Immediately brush all over with honey, making sure not to neglect crevices. Carve into slices and serve.
• 7. Char Siu is delicious hot or cold, it's a versatile ingredient and can be stir-fried with vegetables or mixed with fried rice or used as a topping on noodles.
• 8. Shaohsing wine, yellow bean sauce and hoisin are found in an Asian market.

TOMATO CANTONESE PORK

Steps:

• Mix flour, breadcrumbs, salt and pepper in a shallow dish.
• Dip chops into milk, then into mixture of breadcrumbs, flour, salt and pepper.
• Coat well.
• Fry in oil over medium heat until chops are browned. Add more oil as needed to cook the coating on chops, otherwise the chops will have white spots from the flour.
• Drain and set aside.
• To make sauce: Cut onion in half lengthwise and slice finely to form half rings.
• Brown in oil and drippings from browning chops.
• Add tomatoes and all remaining ingredients except cornstarch and water.
• Taste as it simmers and add more ketchup, HP Sauce or brown sugar to taste.
• Bring to boil and add cornstarch/water mixture, stirring well until the sauce thickens just a little bit.
• Spray 9 X 13 casserole with non-stick spray.
• Pour enough sauce into casserole just to cover the bottom.
• Add half the chops.
• Pour enough sauce to cover the chops.
• Add remaining chops and cover with remainder of sauce.
• Cover and bake at 350 for 45 minutes or until sauce is bubbly.
• With these measurements, you get alot of sauce and will have leftovers. If you have too much sauce, let it cool, put in a freezer container or ziploc bag and freeze. Alternatively, you can 1/2 the sauce recipe.
• It freezes very well.

CANTONESE ROAST PORK (CHAR SIU)

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, mix together the rice wine, soy sauce, sugar, garlic, hoisin sauce and chinese five-spice powder.
• 2. Rub pork belly with marinade mixture and marinate for 2 to 3 hours in the refrigerator.
• 3. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 4. Rub excess marinade of the pork belly, not all of it. Place the pork belly in a roasting pan and roast it for 40 - 45 minutes.
• 5. Flip the pork belly over after 20 minutes and brushing honey on the surface.
• 6. The pork belly is done when the outsides begin to crisp and blacken and the center of the pork belly feels as firm as a tight fist.
• 7. Remove from the oven and let it rest for about 10 minutes then transfer to a cutting board and slice into thin pieces.
• 8. Serve with rice or noodles, or with won ton soup.

CANTONESE LEAN PORK CONGEE

Steps:

• Rinse and drain the rice, and place in a large pot. Stir in the salt and oil, and let stand for 5 minutes.
• Add the pork to the rice, and stir in the water. Bring to a boil, then simmer over medium heat for 15 minutes, or until the pork is cooked through. Remove the pork from the pot with a slotted spoon, and set aside. Continue to simmer the rice for 20 minutes. Chop the pork into small cubes, and mix with the salted egg and hundred-year egg.
• After the 20 minutes are up, stir the pork and egg mixture back into the congee along with the oyster sauce. Serve in bowls, and garnish with ginger and green onion. Have soy sauce and pepper on the side for seasoning.

CANTONESE-STYLE TARO AND PORK BELLY CASSEROLE

Steps:

• BRING a large pot of water to a boil. Submerge the pork belly in the boiling water for 2 minutes to clean it. Remove from the pot and place in a colander. Rinse under cold water.
• USING a siu yuk poker (a needle or skewer works just as well), poke holes in the skin of the pork belly. (This will make the skin crispy after cooking.)
• IN a large bowl, toss the pork belly with the soy sauce to coat.
• MEANWHILE, heat the neutral oil in a large skillet to 350°F over medium-high heat. Add the pork belly and fry for 2 minutes on each side. Remove from the oil and set aside on a paper towel-lined plate.
• MAKING sure your oil is still at 350°F, add the taro (working in batches, if needed) and fry for about 2 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove and drain on a paper towel-lined tray.
• ONCE the pork belly is cool enough to handle, cut it into 3-inch strips. Place in a large bowl and mix with the taro.
• IN a small bowl, combine the salt, MSG, sugar, wine, toasted sesame oil, chicken powder, white pepper, five-spice powder, and fermented bean curd. Stir until the bean curd is broken up. Pour over the pork belly and taro mixture and toss until coated.
• ON a heat-safe tray, alternate tiles of pork belly and taro root, tightly packed. You can use multiple trays. Using the steaming method below, steam the trays in batches for 30 minutes, or until tender.
• USING a spatula or your hands, transfer the pork belly to the platter, maintaining the alternating pattern. Pour the remaining sauce on top and serve.
• How to Steam:
• Steaming is perhaps what sets dim sum apart from all other dumpling-loving kitchens of the world. We steam everything at Nom Wah in an industrial Vulcan steamer. At home, I recommend steaming in a wok. Steaming times vary depending on the density and size of what you are steaming. But the general setup to steam in a wok is as follows.
• Fill the wok with enough water to come up to the lower rim of the steamer but not so much the waterline is above the food bed. Line the bottom of the steamer with paper or a lotus leaf or something so that the fiddly bits won't fall through the cracks. (If steaming dumplings or bao, you won't need to line the steamer.) Place whatever needs steaming in the basket, leaving ample room between items. Bring water to boil and steam for the desired duration. If you need more water-water tends to evaporate-add boiling, not cold, water so as not to stop the steaming.
• If you do want to DIY it, just use a plate in a pot. All you need is tinfoil and a plate that fits in your pot. Fill a pot with ½ an inch of water. Then make a sort of tripod out of tinfoil by forming three golf ball-sized balls and placing them in the bottom of the pot, making sure their tops rest above the waterline. Rest the plate on the tinfoil, cover, and steam. This method is especially useful when making rice rolls, in which you'll be using a cake pan instead of the plate.
• You can put anything in the steamer as long as it isn't so small that it would tumble through the holes into the roiling waters below.

CANTONESE STYLE PORK AND SHRIMP DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the pork, watercress, water chestnuts, green onion, oyster sauce, sesame oil, garlic, soy sauce, ground white pepper and salt and mix together well.
• Place 1/2 teaspoonful of this filling onto each dumpling skin. Place 1 shrimp on the filling, slightly wet the edge of the dumpling skin, fold over and pinch with your fingers to form a seal all the way around.
• To cook: Pan fry the dumplings in a large skillet over medium heat with oil for 15 minutes, turning over halfway through OR Place them in a pot of boiling water for 10 minutes; drain and serve in hot chicken broth.

CANTONESE PORK STEW

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients except pineapple, snow peas, cornstarch, water, salt, pepper and rice in slow cooker. Cover and cook on low 6-8 hours, adding pineapple and snow peas during the last 15 minutes.
• Turn heat to high and cook 10 minutes; stir in combined cornstarch and water, stirring until thickened, 2-3 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve over rice.