How are you handling meals during this extended period of work safe/stay at home? We’ve been ordering take out here and there to support our favorite restaurants, but honestly, I’ve been enjoying home-cooked meals more. It’s been a time to both roll out old favorites and try some of the thousands of recipes I’ve clipped over the past few decades. This recipe for Chinese Barbecued Pork with Garlic Sauce is one of the those clipped recipes, and will definitely become a part of the regular rotation.
The recipe is simple and really delicious. It requires a few Asian ingredients — hoisin sauce, rice wine vinegar, and chili oil — that are readily available at the grocery store (we’re not talking about toilet paper or hand sanitizer, after all). We served it with fried rice, but it would be just as good served over rice or noodles.
- For the barbecued pork:
- 1 tablespoon hoisin
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- 1 pound pork tenderloin, silverskin removed
- For garlic sauce:
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1-1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon chili oil
- Steamed rice or noodles, for serving
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9 x 13 baking dish with foil.
- In a small bowl, whisk together hoisin sauce, ketchup, soy sauce, garlic, and sugar. Put tenderloin in baking pan and coat with hoisin sauce mixture. Roast on center rack for 40 minutes (pork should be cooked through, with no pink in center). Remove from oven and set aside in pan to cool.
- While the pork is cooking, in a small bowl stir together all of the garlic sauce ingredients until sugar is dissolved.
- Transfer pork to a cutting board, and cut across the grain into thin slices. Serve pork over rice or noodles, and spoon garlic sauce over pork.
Ready for the oven
Done!
Easy and delicious meal