A dish that my kid and I strongly adore, consuming least cooking time which I must share with you – Char Siew, air fryer style in 15-minutes from cooking to serving.
Simple ingredients, appetising aroma and drooling dish that no one could resist.
Let’s cook with me!
Homemade Char Siew Air Fryer Style
Ingredients :-
- 300g collar meat (you can pick belly or even chicken chop, at your liking).
- Marinade sauce – soy sauce 2tbsp, oyster 2tbsp, sugar 1 1/2 tbsp, dark soy sauce 1tbsp, pepper to mix well and set aside for 30-minutes prior in fridge or best overnight.
- Sugar 1tbsp and 20ml water, mix well to set aside.
- Topping sauce – soy sauce 2tbsp, honey 2tbsp and butter.
- Bak choy 150g, wash and soak (I usually sprinkle tiny tbsp of baking soda or salt).
- Egg 3nos.
Cooking Steps :-
Marinade meat (ingredient #1 and #2) for 30-minutes or best overnight.
Set marinade meat in room temperature, an hour or least 30-minutes before air-frying them.
Place collar meat in air fryer even, set to 200°C (appr. 392°F) for 10minutes and another 8minutes to flip and cook.
Apply sugar coating (ingredient #3) on collar’s surface evenly (both sides), to increase caramel aroma and chewing texture.
Same time, prepare a boiling pot to blanch bak choy.
Boil in 5-minutes, off stove to soak cooked bak choy in ice water before serving on table.
Hot stove, crack and fried eggs. I have cooked sunny-side and over-hard eggs to pair with char siew rice (yum!).
Same frying pan, to cook topping sauce (ingredient #4) for 3-minutes to serve.
Served (I’m already drooling while fryer “helping” me to cook char siew). Let’s eat with me!
Tips :-
I usually soak blanch vegetables in ice water, to preserve crunchiness and freshness before serving.
Apply more thickening sugar coating, if you would like your char siew to be more sugar-ry.
Separating topping sauce for not directly mixing with char siew, I would always cook more sauce to pair with char siew and rice while my partner is preferring the opposite way.
I wish you loving this popular dish in my family, Homemade Char Siew Air Fryer Style.
From dish preparation, cooking, serving Homemade Char Siew and stove cleaning, I have total spent approximately 30minutes. 15minutes on stove cooking, using this time to run other errands (haha!).
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Homemade Char Siew Air Fryer Style