Roast pork with chinese lettuce
8 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clove garlic | |
| 1 | tablespoon | Sugar |
| 4 | tablespoons | Soy sauce |
| 1½ | teaspoon | Salt |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Pepper |
| 5 | pounds | Pork |
| 1 | Head Chinese lettuce | |
Directions
1. Mince garlic, then combine with sugar, soy sauce, salt and pepper.
Rub over pork and let stand 1 hour. Meanwhile preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Place pork on a rack over a roasting pan containing several inches of water, and roast 1 hour. Meanwhile cut lettuce in 1-inch sections.
3. Remove pork and drain off fat. (Set rack aside.) Line bottom of pan with lettuce; place pork on top. Return to oven and roast 45 minutes more.
From <The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook>, ISBN 0-517-65870-4. Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive, .