Ingredients
Pork marinade
- 500 g bulan minced pork
- 100 g caster sugar
- 20 g Sichuan mala chilli powder adjust to taste
- 40 ml chinese cooking wine
- 50 ml light soy sauce
- 1/2 tbsp dark soya sauce
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
Honey glaze
- 2 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp water
Tool
- 1 1x5cm diameter round cookie cutter
Instructions
Step 1: Prepare the meat and marinate
- Add all the pork marinade to a big bowl and mix evenly. Let it marinate for 30 mins.
Step 2: Bake the bak kwa
- Place a large piece of baking paper on a baking tray, and place half of the meat mixture onto the middle of it.
- Place another piece of baking paper on top of the mixture and roll it flat with a rolling pin. Remove the top parchment paper when it reaches the desired thickness.
- Bake in an oven, middle tray, at 150 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
Step 3: Cut and glaze the bak kwa
- Use a round cookie cutter to cut the baked meat. Remove the fringed meat.
- Apply the honey syrup generously over one side of the bak kwa.
- Bake the bak kwa in the oven, top tray, at 220⁰C for 3 - 5 minutes or until the bak kwa starts to brown a little on the edges of both sides.