Last Updated on February 28, 2022
Barbecued Chinese Roast Pork
Barbecued Chinese Roast Pork is easy to make in your oven and features Asian flavors. Serve it with fried rice and your favorite vegetables.
This roast is so easy to make in your oven. Simply remove any excess fat from a large, boneless loin of pork, score it, put sauce on it and roast it. It comes out sweet and smoky.
Loin of pork is a nice cut if you want to reduce fat intake. It’s very lean, but you might still find fat on the outside. Use a sharp boning knife to remove the fat you don’t want. If you are okay with the fat or enjoy crisp fat, then leave the fat on.
Pork should be cooked to between 145°F / 62°C (medium-rare) to 160°F / 71°C (well-done), depending on how you like it. You don’t have to cook pork to death. It should still be a little pink inside, which would be medium-rare. The USDA, which used to recommend well-done now recommends medium-rare with a 3 minute rest time. That’s good news. No one liked nasty dried-out, tasteless pork!
What to serve with Chinese Roast Pork
I like to serve Same Day Fried Rice and Asian Roasted Vegetables with this.
The Same Day Fried Rice is very easy to prepare. If you have leftover pork, save it to make more fried rice at a later time. Pork freezes very well.
The roasted vegetables are a take-off on the Fire Roasted Balsamic vegetables that Trader Joe’s used to have. You can put the sheet pan with the vegetables on the second rack in your oven.
Ingredients
- 4 pounds boneless pork roast
- 1 cup Hoisin sauce
- 1 cup ketchup
- 1 tablespoon ginger, freshly grated
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
- ½ teaspoon toasted sesame seed oil
- ⅛ teaspoon Liquid Smoke, optional
Instructions
- Mise en place
- 1 cup Hoisin sauce, 1 cup ketchup, 1 tablespoon ginger, 1 teaspoon rice vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame seed oil, 1/8 teaspoon Liquid SmokeMix the sauce ingredients together and set them aside.
- 4 pounds boneless pork roastTrim the pork of any fat you don't want then score it about 3 or 4 times.
- Paint the roast with some of the sauce.
- Line the bottom of a sheet pan with foil and set the rack on top of the foil.
- Put the roast on a rack in the sheet pan and roast at 350°F/ 176°C until the meat reaches 145°F/ 62°C on an instant-read thermometer, about 1 hour.
- To serve, remove from the oven, and let stand for 5 minutes.
- Carve, and put on the nice dish, garnish with chopped cilantro and spring onions.
I loved the way this roast turned out so nice and juicy.
I don’t usually write reviews, but I had to come back and say how good this was. I really liked all the ginger, just perfect. Looking forward to more!
We had this roast with your Asian Roasted Vegetables and it was a hit. Lots of flavor, moist and tender. I’ll be making this again.
Yeah, I don’t know what everyone is going on about. I didn’t like this at all. It was too runny and too salty. I couldn’t find hosin sauce so I used soy sauce instead.
Georgia, I’m sorry you didn’t like the roast. If you cannot find hoisin sauce in your local supermarket, you can always buy it online. Hoisin sauce is an essential ingredient in this recipe. Try it with hoisin and you might like it.
I got a smaller roast and was able to put it in my rotisserie air fryer. Perfection!
I really liked this, and I liked it even more because I could make it in my oven and have it taste good. Thanks for this!
I missed out on this for the Lunar New Year, but I made it for more love for Valentine’s Day. Very tasty and she loved it.
I live in a small apartment and tried this because I don’t have a grill. It was fantastic. Thanks!
Your recipe is matchless… 🙂