Bak kwa recipe

Make Chinese New Year even more meaningful by serving your guests with home-made Bak Kwa, the Chinese version of barbecued pork jerky. Our recipe is very tender, highly glossy and has a nice substantial bite. Try making it yourself!

The Best Homemade Pork Jerky aka Bak Kwa 自制猪肉干 - This is a tried & tested recipe to make pork jerky at home in your own oven. Many readers have tried and succeeded. Taste and texture is closed to store bought pork jerky. These are more hygienic and healthy with no preservative added.

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Our Top 8 CNY Dishes series’ seventh dish is home cook Carrie Lum’s recipe for homemade Bak Kwa 自制肉干! Moist, tender, and perfectly caramelised!

Bak Kwa is a popular Chinese New Year snack with a delightful combination of sweet and savory. It is tender and full of flavor made with minced pork and simple marinade seasonings. It may look challenging, but making homemade pork jerky is easy with just 3 basic steps: marinating, shaping, and baking.

I have promised my colleague S that I would post the recipe for my homemade bak kwa for a long time but I never got a round to do it. Since I have a little bit of time tonight, I decided to write about it first among all the other things I want to blog about. Ever since I was a kid I had always been wondering how pork jerky is made. Pork jerky is pretty expensive if you buy them in a store so I was under the impression that the process of making it must be very complicated. It was until I…

Pork jerky or Bakkwa (肉乾）is popular in Singapore and Malaysia where it is usually eaten during Chinese New Year. Last year I made a batch of Bakkwa using very lean meat and it turn out to be very dry and hard.(I thought I didn't want to take too much animal fat! Controlling cholesterol level hehe)). This time I used meat with some fat and it turn out nice. So forget about that cholesterol level for a while.... and enjoy eating first! BAKKWA Ingredients 1 kg ground meat(with some fat) 200 g…

Cooked but not charred bak kwa on parchment paper.

This is the 1st time I did Bak Kwa (Chinese Pork Jerky), amazing how easy to make this at home...Bak Kwa is a popular snack for Chinese ...

…not Lim Chee Guan, Bee Cheng Hiang, Fragrance or even Kim Hock Guan. Year after year, only one bak kwa (pork jerky) maker gets business from my family – Kim Hwa Guan (金华源). We swear by the Kim Hwa Guan bak kwa and find theirs to be the tastiest in town! Do you agree? Each year, around this time, a phenomenon would occur in Singapore. Long queues would form at […]