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Home > Pork Recipes

Pork Asado Chinese-Style

BY :Bebs | Published: 12/15/ 2020 | Updated:12/23/ 2020 | 5 Comments

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This Chinese-style Pork Asado is an easy one-pot dish made by braising pork shoulder in a sweet-savory sauce until fork-tender! Serve it as a main dish with rice or use it as a filling for Siopao.

Slices of pork with sweet sticky dark sauce.

  • What is it?
  • Chinese-Style Pork Asado vs Char Siu
  • How to make your own Five-Spice Powder at home
  • Foxy Tips when making Pork Asado Chinese-Style
  • Chinese-style Pork Asado

What is it?

This version of pork Asado is one of the many that we learned from the Chinese. It is a sweet and savory dish close to Char Siu in flavor. What characterizes this dish though is the use of five-spice powder. It is mostly made from star anise, cloves, cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, and fennel seed. This spice is what gives the dish its distinct oriental flavor.

It is very different from Kapampangan Pork Asado, which is a savory dish cooked in a rich tomato sauce base with potatoes and spices.

Ingredients for Pork Asado

Chinese-Style Pork Asado vs Char Siu

You may wonder what the difference is between the two as some refer to this Pork Asado recipe as the Filipino equivalent of Char Siu. Both are of Chinese origin and have some identical ingredients used. However, Char Siu is roasted either over a fire or in the oven while Pork Asado is seared and simmered in a pot. Both are equally delicious!

How to make your own Five-Spice Powder at home

If you are unable to buy the ready-mix five-spice powder, don't fret! Make one at home using the following ingredients:

  • 10 cloves
  • 1 ½ teaspoon fennel seeds
  • 3 pieces star anise
  • 1 teaspoon Sichuan pepper
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder

Once you have all these, all you need to do is to grind them all together.

how to cook pork asado

Foxy Tips when making Pork Asado Chinese-Style

  • If you cannot find cooking rice wine you can substitute it with cooking sherry or brandy. Or you can just skip this ingredient entirely.
  • Make sure to not season the meat slab with salt before searing. Salt will draw moisture out of the meat and will prevent you from getting a nice brown sear.
  • Pour enough water to cover the meat. This will be the base of your sauce later on and will thicken with the help of the cornstarch slurry.
  • Let the meat rest before slicing. This will allow juices to redistribute resulting in a juicier and more flavorful dish.

If you are looking for more sweet-savory dishes, try these:

Braised pork belly in sweet-savory soy-vinegar sauce.
Pork Humba  is a braised pork belly with savory-sweet soy-vinegar sauce with a distinguishing taste of tausi cooked until tender
Pork estofado with banana blossoms and fried saba.
Pork Estofado, is a soy-vinegar stew with distinctive flavors from fried plantains, banana blossoms, and caramelized sugar

pata tim recipe
Try this Pata Tim recipe for melt-in-your-mouth succulent meat with a perfect sweet-savory sauce that goes with it

Thin slices of pork with dark, sweet, sticky sauce serve on a plate.
Pork Asado Recipe
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Chinese-style Pork Asado

5 from 4 votes
This Chinese-style Pork Asado is an easy one-pot dish made by searing the pork shoulder then simmering it in a spiced sweet-savory sauce until fork-tender! Serve it as a main dish with rice or use it as a filling for Siopao.
Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 55 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Course :Main Course
Servings =6
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Ingredients
 

  • 2-3 tablespoon oil
  • 1 kg pork shoulder
  • 2 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 medium onion chopped finely
  • ½ cup soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoon cooking rice wine optional
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 2 teaspoon five-spice powder
  • 1-2 cups water
  • 2 teaspoons cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoon water

Instructions
 

  • Heat oil in a pot over medium heat. Sear the pork shoulder slab on all sides just until lightly browned. Remove meat from oil and set aside.
  • From the same pot with oil, saute garlic and onion until limp and aromatic.
  • Add back the meat. Pour in soy sauce and cooking rice wine and add the brown sugar and five-spice powder and cook until sugar has caramelized.
  • Pour in water enough to cover the meat. Cover pot with lid and let it simmer over low heat until meat is fork-tender.
  • Remove cover and turn the heat to medium-high to reduce the liquids. Add the cornstarch slurry and simmer until the sauce becomes thick.
  • Take the meat from the sauce and let it rest for 10 minutes on a cutting board. Slice the pork into thin slices.
  • Arrange the slices on a serving dish. Drizzle the thick sweet-savory sauce on top of the meat and serve while still warm.

Nutrition

Calories: 255kcalCarbohydrates: 13gProtein: 22gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 68mgSodium: 1163mgPotassium: 446mgFiber: 1gSugar: 10gVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 40mgIron: 2mg
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  1. Mark says

    November 30, 2021 at 3:19 pm

    5 stars
    Easy to prepare and yummy!

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  2. Joyce says

    November 26, 2021 at 11:05 pm

    5 stars
    I made this and my English husband and I loved it! It's the Asado I've been missing a lot and I'm happy that it can go into the Siopao bun too... that's my next project! Thank you very much! I tagged you when I posted it on Filipino Cooking Group over at Facebook ❤

    Reply
  3. William says

    November 02, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    5 stars
    looks easy to prepare and definitely looks yummy

    Reply
  4. pork asado says

    January 28, 2021 at 8:46 am

    5 stars
    this page helps me a lot when its come to our every day ulam, :))))
    thank you for making this page:))

    Reply
    • Bebs says

      May 20, 2021 at 12:31 pm

      Glad to be of help!

      Reply

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