Slow roasted pork with hoisin and Chinese five spice

Hoisin and Chinese five spice roasted pork neck served with steamed Jasmine rice and Chinese Broccoli 

what you will need

Ingredients:
1 Pork neck (approximately 900g)
Ginger  1 Tbspn
Garlic  3 cloves
Hoi sin sauce 4 Tbspn
Chinese 5 Spice 1 Tbspn
Soy Sauce (preferably Chinese) 2 Tbspn
Chinese Cooking Wine   1/4 cup
Jasmine Rice 3 cups 
Chinese Broccoli 3 bunches

Description : 
Finely chop Ginger and Garlic if using fresh. Whisk together the Ginger, Garlic, Hoisin, five spice, soy sauce and Chinese cooking wine. Time to get your freshly washed hands dirty or wear gloves. Place the pork into the marinade ingredients. Cover the pork in the saucy marinade so that it is completely covered. Marinate preferably overnight or at least 4 hours. If you don't have time to marinate, you can get away with just going straight to the oven. You may lose a little flavour. 

marinating pork

Preheat the oven to 130°C. Place the pork on a greased or lined baking dish. With a sweet marinade (from the hoisin) you will have a challenge at the wash up sink if you don't line the baking tray. Cook the pork for 2 hours or until a probe thermometer inserted in the centre reaches 65°C. During cooking turn the pork every 30 minutes for even cooking. Transfer the pork to a plate to rest for 30 minutes. Strain liquid left in bottom of the baking dish through a strainer to reserve for serving. There should only be a little.

cover rice up to 1st joint of index finger

Now is the time to put your rice on to cook by your preferred method. A rice cooker is a great way to make sure you never have to think about rice again. Rinse the rice under the tap to remove some of the starch. Then, add enough water so that the water comes up to the first joint on your index finger.

Prepare the Chinese broccoli by washing and slicing across the leaves and stems at approximately 2 cm lengths. Steam the stems for 3 minutes before adding the leaves and cooking for another 2 minutes or until wilted.
Slice the pork thinly across the grain. Serve alongside the Chinese broccoli and fluffy white rice. Drizzle a little of the strained sauce over the pork after buzzing in microwave for 1 minute, and enjoy.

Pictured rice contains red cargo rice mixed with white Jasmine.