And even though serving meatballs over spaghetti is an American invention, there's no better way to enjoy these tasty meatballs than doused in marinara over a bed of pasta. These recipes will mostly follow that structure, sometimes with an added twist. An Italian meatball typically contains ground meat, specifically beef, garlic, eggs, parsley, and sometimes cheese. So all that changes today with these 10 outrageously delicious Italian meatball recipes that you won't be able to resist trying. Our 10 Best Italian Meatball Recipes for All Your Spaghetti Dinner Needs If you aren't making your own meatballs for spaghetti, subs, or soup, you're truly missing out. This prevents any drippings from burning or smoking. Pour 1 ½ cups water into the pan below the rack.

Place the pork on the rack, leaving as much space as possible between pieces. Using the metal rack keeps the pork off of the pan and allows it to roast more evenly, like it does in commercial ovens described above. Line a sheet pan with foil and place a metal rack on top. Regardless, be sure to check your char siu every 10 minutes, reducing or increasing the temperature as needed. Using an oven thermometer to double-check the actual oven temperature is a great safeguard to monitor your food (I say double-check because even oven thermostat calibrations vary and can sometimes be incorrect). It’s amazing how oven temperatures can vary-from model to model, in different spots in the oven, and in how ovens pre-heat and maintain heat. (If you only have a convection oven, keep in mind the oven not only heats more quickly, your char siu will roast faster than what we have described here). To simulate this at home, p reheat your oven to ‘bake’ at 475 F (246 C) with a rack positioned in the upper third of the oven. In my parent’s restaurant, we had a large standing roasting oven the size of a narrow refrigerator, where the pork could hang from these large S-shaped hooks over a pan of water to roast evenly at very high temperatures and get some good color and flavor. Cover and store the reserved marinade in the fridge as well.

Ĭover and refrigerate overnight, or at least 8 hours. But today, many restaurants skimp on the spices!Ī good char siu recipe has depth of flavor––a salty/sweet contrast with a hint of spice that compliments the pork and allows it to stand alone with just a simple mound of steamed rice and blanched choy sum. Over the years, the flavor of the char siu one could get in noodle shops and roast meat restaurants in Chinatowns around the world developed a signature sweetness. To make char siu, pork is marinated in a sweet BBQ sauce and then roasted. Char siu (or slightly different spelling, cha siu ) is its Cantonese name, but in Mandarin, it is known as cha shao. While we first posted this recipe on The Woks of Life years ago (February 2014 to be exact), we’ve re-tested and made a few tweaks to the recipe that I’m sure he’d approve of! Also scroll down for a new recipe video! What Is Char Siu?Ĭhar siu (叉烧) is a type of Cantonese roast meat. My father, the hotel restaurant’s head chef at the time, used a closely guarded recipe of Chinese sauces, lots of garlic, and spices to make his classic char siu. Growing up in the Catskills, the first time I saw this Chinese BBQ pork, or char siu, was at the Holiday Inn of all places.

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