Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Cooking With Microwave Oven - Lean Tenderloin Char Siew Recipe

Meat that are cooked in Microwave oven tends to be tougher and would hardened when cooled. In order to solve this problem, I experimented with tenderloin which is the tenderest cut of pork. I put the whole tenderloin strip in the microwave oven to cook so that the juice would be sealed inside it. I do not want to end up with dried meat! LOL!

Here is my recipe for Lean Tenderloin Pork Char Siew

Ingredients
Pork tenderloin, 1 strip
Sugar, 2 tablespoons
Salt to taste
Light soya sauce, 2 tablespoons
Five Spice powder, 1 teaspoon
Fish sauce, 1 teaspoon (optional)
Corn flour, 2 teaspoons

Marinade pork tenderloin overnight with all the ingredients. Cook the marinated pork tenderloin in microwave oven over high heat for 15 minutes. Turn off the microwave oven power and take out the pork tenderloin. Turn the meat over to the other side. Cook in microwave oven for another 10 minutes. Take the pork tendeloin char siew out from the oven and let it cooled down a little before cutting it into slice. You can make char siew sauce from the leftover marinate by heating it up and bring to a boil. Drizzle a little char siew sauce on the tenderloin char siew before serving.

15 comments:

Somewhere in Singapore said...

Yummy yummy!!!

Amelia said...

yummy delicious char siew

Shereen said...

You cooked that in the microwave?You are not joking are you?...they look so good.

Small Kucing said...

terror....CNY i can order char siew from you ka?

Coffee Girl said...

very sharp pictures! i can almost them! yummy!

btw, i was here. :-) Nice site you got here.

suituapui said...

So this does not turn hard when cooled? Looks good...

Christine said...

thanks for the recipe!

Reanaclaire said...

*salute you* can open shop already!!

Alice Law said...

*Hat off! You hv chef quality, whna re u going to open your restaurant?!

lena said...

can make roast poark ( siu yoke) using microwave or not..i wonder..

[SK] said...

oh wow!!! can't believe microwave oven can cook such decent char siew!! salute!!!

Quay Po Cooks said...

Pete, You not only clever to find places to eat nice food, can cook nice food too.. Whoa I am impressed. hehe

Unknown said...

visiting you Pete

yvonne said...

Hmm, looks promising. Does it taste as yummy as the one you fried previously (fried char siew)?

Pete said...

Smallkucing : boleh boleh

Coffee girl : thks for visiting

STP : Because I used tenderloin, it is still tender when cooled.

Alice : Maybe, very soon I hope...

Lena : I will try....easier to make the skin crispy with microwave...I think

Yvonne : I still prefer bbq char siew....more aromatic, fried one second and microwave only for the convenience....lol!