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Grilled Baby Back Ribs with Hoisin Dai Fao
These grilled baby back ribs are comfort food for me. As a kid growing up in the San Francisco Bay area, at one point I went to high school in “The City”. My school was near fisherman’s wharf and I took the cable car on non-peak tourist times to school. That runs straight through Chinatown, and I used to love the energy and how different that part of the city was from well just about anywhere. Even as a kid working in the restaurants, I learned from Cho, Kwok and Chan. They taught me how to do many authentic Cantonese dishes that were our kitchen dinners. Rainee and I used to walk through Chinatown to look for great and different ingredients to play with. Later, when I was at the California Culinary Academy I studied with a great chef named Ken Hom, who has a number of books and a TV show in the UK. Ken has been amazingly successful and prolific in the UK and Europe. I highly recommend Ken’s books starting with his classical chinese techniques then East West. Ken taught a strong basis in traditional Chinese cooking, then into Pacific rim or East West. These grilled baby back ribs are not a classical dish and are really more of a modern fusion of east west, asian ingredients and western technique. I really enjoy this type of cuisine when it is done right. This is a dish that I make at home when I am yearning for those flavors, but not necessarily in a classic format.
Serves 4 2 racks baby back ribs Marinade 1 cup rice wine vinegar 1 cup soy sauce 4 tablespoons fresh ginger finely chopped 4 tablespoons fresh garlic finely chopped 2 tablespoons sesame oil 1 tablespoon chinese five spice powder combine all and marinate the ribs 4 to six hours. Hoisin Glaze 1/2 cup hoisin sauce 1 teaspoon five spice powder 1 teaspoon Sriracha chile sauce 1 teaspoon sesame oil 1 tablespoon water combine all, hold for glazing the ribs
Cut the ribs and garnish with sesame seeds and green onions slices on a 45 degree angle. This a great with rice and garlicky sugar snap peas.
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