Pork cheeks. Char sui pork cheeks. It sounds better in French. Tastes good in/on any tongue. With recycled, fried California brown rice. Frugal and lazy. That’s how I feel today, lazy. I never feel frugal, it just happens 🙂
I think the char sui cheek medallions would have been even better on a grill but I couldn’t be bothered. I marinated them and plunked them into my roasting/rack pan. They were delicious.
Must be the weather, maybe the latitude longitude or maybe the kitchen’s feng shui needs adjustment. I know the sink does. Whatever. I feel better already 😀
Char Sui Pork Cheeks with Chaos Fried Rice
Pork
6 medallions of pork cheeks, about a pound
1/2 cup prepared char sui marinade
Put the pork in a zip lock bag with the marinade and massage, then refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Remove the pork from the bag, reserving marinade and place in a roasting pan with a rack. Preheat the oven to 400 F, place the pan in the oven and cook for 40-45 minutes, turning and basting with the reserved marinade every 15 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes, then slice.
Rice
2 shallots, coarsely chopped
1/2 red bell pepper, coarsely chopped
3 tbsp olive oil
1 cup snow peas, sliced into fourths
2 cups cooked brown rice
2 eggs, beaten
2 tbsp soy sauce
Hard boiled egg halves, optional
In a skillet, soften the shallots and pepper in the olive oil, then add the snow peas and continue to cook for 1 minute. Add the rice and cook for an additional 3 minutes. Shove everything to the side of the skillet, add the eggs, scramble, then mix the eggs into the rice. Pour over the soy sauce and blend well.
Serve with egg halves if desired.
Delicious – I love pig cheeks 🙂
My first time, but not my last!
That meat looks wonderful. I need to get some pig cheek stat!
It was Frugal and it was frugal 🙂
Hah – I’ll get in contact with my meat supplier and get hold of some!
wow, does that look good!
I’m thinking that a rosé/rosado from Navarra would be pretty good with the pork cheeks. I’ll have to see if I can get my butcher to supply some…
It’s definitely the rose season. Sounds good.
Now that looks seriously awesome…..great idea!
Thank you redrice. I was lucky to find these beautiful medallions in the supermarket.
Lucky you! The butchers over there know their stuff!
Cheers, Keith
I adore Pig’s cheeks! What a nice recipe!
Thank you Darya.
I love pig cheeks and these sound wonderful in any language!
Thank you Chica.
Wonderful recipe. I love pork cheeks. Now I’ve got to see if I can find them here in Boulder.
Hi Janet. I always think of Boulder as a boutique kind of town. Don’t you have butchers, cute bakery shops, designer vegetable shops, sidewalk cafes? All I remember is the Hoover dam.
Oddly we have half the things you said and then no butcher shops or vegetable shops. There are sidewalk cafes, lots of coffee. It is a foodie town, but, with only 100,000, there are things we just don’t have. It’s not as big of a foodie town as Los Angeles. Oh, the vegetables I could get there.
Bummer. But I like the town size 🙂 Just have to make those shopping trips.
we used to called this char siu in Indonesia….
i love that you using the pork jowl or land scallop, my fave cut!
Ye-ah!
I love char sui fan. I have not yet had it with pork cheeks. Looks delicious.
Try char sui with everything 🙂
That a nice part to make char siu of.
Yes it was 🙂
It looks absolutely wonderful!
Thank you Bassa.
Looks delish! I love the name of the rice :).
Thank you Tessa.
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