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Char Siew Sou

Ingredients
  

Oil Skin

  • 80 g Lard pork or veggie
  • 20 g Unsalted Butter
  • 1 g Salt
  • 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  • 70 g Low gluten flour

Water Skin

  • 18 g Sugar
  • 12 g Lard
  • 5 g Oil
  • 48 g Water
  • 70 g Low Gluten flour

Filling

  • 8 g Butter
  • 1 Onion sliced thinly
  • 60 g Water
  • 15 g Sugar
  • 10 g Oyster sauce
  • 1/2 tsp Sesame oil
  • 1/8 tsp Pepper
  • 1/4 tsp Bullion
  • 10 g Corn starch dissolved in 20g of cold water
  • 1/2 tsp Wine
  • 100 g Char Siew

Char Siew

  • 1 kg Pork
  • 1 tsp Five spice powder
  • 1 tsp White Pepper
  • 1 Tbsp Sugar
  • 2 Tbsp Light soya sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Dark Soya sauce
  • 1 Tbsp Oyster sauce
  • 4 Tbsp Honey

Egg Wash

  • 1 Egg White
  • 1 Egg Yolk
  • 1 tsp Sesame seeds

Instructions
 

Make Char Siew

  • Marinate the pork over night with the marinade.
  • Boil or grill the pork.

Make the Filing

  • Cut the pork into thin slices, and width of 0.5 cm.
  • Heat a pan with butter to medium heat, and stir in the onions.
  • Put in the rest of the condiments except for the water and corn starch.
  • Make a corn starch solution with the corn starch and water.
  • Stir the constarch solution into the pork and bring to a boil. Set aside in the refrigerator.

Make the Oil Skin

  • Put all ingredients in a mixer. Remove, wrap in a cling film and refrigerate once combined.

Make the Water Skin

  • Put all ingredients in a mixer. Give it a few good kneads. Remove, wrap in a cling film and refrigerate. Note that the consistency of both the oil and water skin must be the same so that they are malleable They will bleed into each other otherwise.

Make the Puff Pastry

  • Wrap the oil skin inside the water skin.
  • Roll out to 1cm thick and use the book method to fold pastry three times, resting 5 minutes each time on the bench.

Make the Char Siew Sou

  • Preheat oven at 200°C.
  • Roll out the pastry to 0.5 cm thick, cut into 9 equal portions.
  • Divide filing to 9 equal portions.
  • Wrap each filing with the dough. Egg wash once with egg white and 1/2 the egg yolk. Let dry.
  • Brush with the remaining egg yolk and top with sesame seeds.
  • Bake for 10 min at 200°C, then lower to 170°C and bake for another 10 to 15 minutes until it has turned golden brown, and the layers are dried to complete the bake.