Pork in soy sauce in the oven is a tasty, satisfying dish that does not require any time and money, nor any skills of an experienced chef. Baked meat, previously marinated in soy sauce, will decorate your holiday or Sunday table!
Oven-cooked pork in soy sauce - general cooking principles
The first thing to note: it’s better to buy fresh pork: neck, shoulder blade, ham, tenderloin. Avoid cooking a dish from a frozen product - the meat will turn out to be dry. Fat from a piece can be cut or left - depends on the hostess's preference.
The meat can be baked in large pieces or portioned slices, most importantly, at the beginning of cooking it must be thoroughly washed, dried and marinated in soy sauce. In addition, spices, dried herbs, garlic, honey, mustard are used to add a new flavoring note, but you need to be careful with salt - if soy sauce is salty, it is possible to salt pork.
You can bake pork in soy sauce in the oven simply by laying it on a greased baking sheet, in a heat-resistant dish with a lid, in foil, in a sleeve. Various baking methods achieve a diverse effect and, accordingly, taste - braised pork, baked with a crispy crust, with gravy, etc.
Such pork is served hot with a side dish of vegetables, cereals, pasta or as a cold snack. It is tasty with pickled vegetables, mushrooms, fresh herbs.
1. Pork in Soy Sauce in the Oven: A Classic Simple Recipe
Ingredients:
• pork meat - 550 g;
• soy sauce - 1 cup;
• mustard - 50 mg;
• garlic - 4 cloves;
• seasoning paprika, black pepper - 15 g;
• salt - a pinch;
• sesame seeds - 30 g.
Cooking method:
1. First, prepare the marinade in this way: mix mustard with garlic, soy sauce, paprika, salt and black pepper.
2. Cut the prepared meat into small portions, 3 cm wide and 1.5 cm thick, pour it with the resulting marinade and marinate for 3 hours in the refrigerator.
3. Put the pickled meat in a deep sheet, pour the marinade in which it was pickled, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
4. Bake no more than 40 minutes, at a temperature of no higher than 200 degrees.
5. After 20 minutes, open the oven and mix the meat on the sheet with a spatula with a long handle.
6. When serving on a serving plate, put a slice of baked meat, and next to it lay a side dish of stewed vegetables or boiled cereals, sprinkled with sauce.
2. Pork in soy sauce in the oven with honey
Ingredients:
• pork - 650 g;
For honey and soy sauce:
• soy sauce - 1 cup;
• honey - 180 g;
• mustard - 50 mg;
• salt, black pepper - a pinch.
Cooking method:
1. We make honey and soy sauce: mix all the necessary products specified in the recipe.
2. Wash pork, cut out excess fat, cut into medium pieces 2 cm thick.
3. Put in a cup, mix with sauce and leave to marinate for only 2 hours. This sauce will give the meat a special softness and crisp, while the sweetness of honey will not be felt.
4. Put the meat pieces on a baking sheet, pour the sauce and bake for 35 minutes at a temperature of no more than 200 degrees.
5. A few minutes before the meat is ready, open the oven, pour over the sauce again and bake for another 6 minutes. From this, the meat will turn out even juicier, and the crust on the surface will be even crispy and more appetizing.
6. Serve meat according to this recipe with a fresh salad or boiled cereals.
3. Pork in soy sauce in the oven with mayonnaise
Ingredients:
• pork meat - 1 kg;
• 1 onion head;
• mayonnaise - half a glass;
• soy sauce - half a glass;
• salt, black pepper, Italian spices - 15 g;
• sunflower oil for greasing a baking sheet - 20 ml.
Cooking method:
1. Peeled, chopped onion into medium-sized dice, chop in a food processor, pour in mayonnaise, mix.
2. Pour soy sauce into onion gruel, put salt, pepper, mix thoroughly again.
3. We cut the meat into portions, beat it a little with a hammer, covering the pork with a plastic wrap.
4. Soy sauce with mayonnaise, coat all the slices, put in a deep cup and with the lid closed, send to the refrigerator for marinating for the whole night.
5. The next day, sprinkle the baking sheet with oil, put the meat on it, sprinkle with Italian spices and put in the oven.
6. Bake at 200 degrees for up to one hour, depending on how needed the degree of readiness is, as well as what kind of crispy crust is needed.
7. Serve this meat with fresh vegetables, sprinkled with herbs.
4. Oven-baked pork in soy sauce in the oven
Ingredients:
• pork meat (breast) - 1 kg;
For marinade:
• burning adjika - half a glass;
• soy sauce - half a glass;
• Italian spices - 1 pack.
Cooking method:
1. Pour the required amount of sauce into the container, add adjika and spices to it. Salt and pepper are not needed in this recipe because salinity and bitterness will give the sauce.
2. With the resulting liquid, coat the pork belly, put in another cup and leave for several hours.
3. Place the pickled brisket in the baking sleeve and place on the sheet.
4. Bake at 200 degrees for 1.5 hours.
5. Put the finished brisket on a portioned plate, next to it lay the baked potatoes, decorate with cherry tomatoes and herbs.
5. Pork in soy sauce in the oven in foil
Ingredients:
• pork (neck) - 700 g;
• soy sauce - 1 incomplete glass;
• black pepper - 10 g.
Cooking method:
1. Marinate a large piece of pork neck in soy sauce and black pepper. Leave it for 10 hours. Pork in soy sauce according to this recipe is very tender, juicy and uniquely tasty. Existing fat on the pork neck is not cut, because it is he who will give the dish juiciness and tenderness.
2. During pickling, every 3 hours, open the lid and turn the piece over.
3. Put the well-pickled meat on a sheet of foil, fill it with sauce, pack it well so that the sauce does not flow out when baking.
4. Put on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at a moderate temperature for 60 minutes.
5. At the end of this time, open the edges of the foil, increase the temperature of the oven to 230 degrees and add another 15 minutes to a light brown, crisp. In the case that the oven has the "grill" function, you can turn it on and bake the same time.
6. When serving, cut a piece into portions, put on plates, next to it lay out slices of fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, some canned peas and a sprig of parsley.
6. Pork in soy sauce in the oven with onions
Ingredients:
• pork fillet without fat - 1 kg;
• soy sauce - an incomplete glass;
• vegetable oil - 70 ml;
• 3 onion heads;
• a pinch of salt.
Cooking method:
1. Not a fatty piece of my pork. We cut it into large pieces with a thickness of 2-3 cm.
2. Put the meat slices in an enameled container, put onions there, cut into thin strips, pour the soy sauce and vegetable oil.
3. If desired, slightly add salt or not salt at all, depending on how many grams of salt are in soy sauce.
4. Thoroughly stir the entire contents of the pan and send it to the refrigerator overnight with the lid closed.
5. In the morning we take out the meat in the sauce and onion from the refrigerator, mix again and leave for another 1 hour.
6. The pickled meat is pulled out of the pan, put on the oven sheet mixed with onions. With onions it will turn out even tastier and more aromatic.
7. Put the sheet in a hot oven with a temperature of 170 degrees, bake until fully cooked.
8. The cooking time depends on the browned crust on the surface of the meat and usually lasts one hour.
9. Ready lean meat in soy sauce and onions are served on plates with boiled potatoes, sprinkled with chopped dill.
7. Pork in a soy sauce in the oven with vegetables
Ingredients:
• 420 g of pork;
• onions, carrots;
• sweet red and green peppers;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• eggplant;
• 1 tbsp. l starch;
• 3 tbsp. l soy sauce;
• 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
• glass of water;
• paprika;
• sesame seeds;
• feathers of green onions.
Cooking method:
1. Cut the washed and dried pork into small pieces, put it in a frying pan heated with oil. Fry for 2-5 minutes until crusted.
2. Add chopped onion rings, carrot straws. Fry everything together for another 2-3 minutes.
3. We shift the meat with vegetable frying into a deep pan.
4. On top of the spread pepper sliced in rings and eggplant circles.
5. Pour soy sauce into the water, add starch, sugar, ground paprika, chopped garlic. Mix thoroughly.
6. Pour the prepared ingredients with sauce, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
7. Cover the form with foil, send to the preheated oven for 45 minutes.
8. Before serving, sprinkle with green onion rings.
Oven Pork in Soy Sauce - Tips and Tricks
• You can modify any of these recipes to your taste preferences by adding other ingredients to the marinade, laying potatoes, mushrooms, prunes next to pork, sprinkling meat 10-12 minutes before being cooked with cheese chips.
• A whole piece of pork can be grated with dried garlic or, after making small cuts on a piece, put in plates of fresh garlic. This is done before pickling in soy sauce.
• Do not forget to bake meat with the resulting juice with marinade every 15-17 minutes, this will make the pork juicier, and the crust will be more appetizing.
• Such additional components as mustard, adjika give the dish a special spicy spicy taste, ground sweet paprika, curry - add color.
