CHINESE BARBECUED PORK WITH GARLIC SAUCE

Chinese Barbecued Pork with Garlic Sauce image

Yield Serves 4

Number Of Ingredients 16

For barbecued pork
1 tablespoon hoisin sauce
1 tablespoon ketchup
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon sugar
a 3/4-pound pork tenderloin
For garlic sauce
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 teaspoon rice vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
1 teaspoon Asian chili oil, or 1 teaspoon Asian sesame oil plus Tabasco to taste
1/4 cup fresh coriander leaves, washed well, spun dry, and torn
Accompaniment:
curried stir-fried noodles with vegetables

Steps:

Make barbecued pork:
Preheat oven to 350°F. and line a shallow baking pan with foil.
In a small bowl whisk together hoisin sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, garlic, and sugar. Put pork tenderloin in baking pan and coat with hoisin sauce mixture. Roast pork in middle of oven 35 to 40 minutes, or until a meat thermometer inserted in center registers 160°F. Cool pork completely in baking pan.
Make garlic sauce while pork is cooling:
In a small bowl stir together sauce ingredients until sugar is dissolved.
Transfer pork to a cutting board and with a knife held at a 45° angle cut meat across grain into thin slices. Arrange pork, overlapping slices slightly, over noodles. Spoon garlic sauce over pork and sprinkle pork with coriander.