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Asian Pulled Pork with Bao Buns

Ingredients

Pulled Pork

  • 2 kg piece of Pork Leg or shoulder
  • 1 cup Hoisin Sauce
  • 2 onions peeled and cut into a large dice
  • 4 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons honey
  • 1 thumb sized piece of ginger peeled and grated on the microplane
  • 4 cloves of garlic sliced
  • 3 cups beef stock

To Serve

  • ½ Red onion sliced
  • 2 teaspoons red wine vinegar
  • 2 teaspoons white sugar
  • ½ cup Coriander leaves
  • 8 Bao Buns
  • 1 Carrot julienned or grated
  • ½ Cucumber julienned or sliced
  • ¼ cup mint leaves sliced
  • 1 red chilli sliced
  • Kewpie mayo
  • Hoisin Sauce

Instructions

  1. For the pulled pork, preheat oven to 150 degrees fan bake.
  2. Place all pulled pork ingredients, except pork, in your Biroix Dutch oven and stir well, add pork and coat with sauce.
  3. Place in the oven and cook for 4-8 hours, check every hour, and baste with the sauce.
  4. It is cooked once it is easy to pull apart with a fork. It should fall apart. Once cooked, remove the meat from the liquid, now you have the option to strain the liquid or not, I usually do so that the kids don’t pick out pieces of onion! Then place the liquid back in your dish and on a medium heat and reduce the sauce. This can take between 20 – 40 minutes. It will reduce by about a third.
  5. Once cool enough to handle, ‘pull’ the pork by using two forks. Discard any fat or gristle or bone.
  6. Once the sauce has reduced nicely, add the pork back into the sauce.
  7. To Serve
  8. Pickle the red onion by placing in a bowl with red wine vinegar and sugar.
  9. When serving, steam the buns by following packet instructions. Spread with hoisin sauce, Kewpie mayo, and place some pork in the middle. Add cucumber, carrot, red onion, coriander, mint and red chilli.
  10. Serve.
  11. Happy Cooking xx Jana