Sweet and Sour Pork
Sweet and Sour Pork

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sweet and sour pork. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Cubed pork and stir-fried vegetables are coated in a mouthwatering sweet and sour sauce prepared with simple ingredients. Mix in the egg white and green onions. Sweet and Sour Pork is an iconic Chinese recipe and classic Cantonese dish. Called "咕嚕肉" or "goo lou yok" in Cantonese dialect, this recipe is very pleasing to the palate because of the flavorsome sweet and sour sauce—the sweetness from sugar plus the tangy ketchup and sharp rice.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have sweet and sour pork using 22 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet and Sour Pork:
  1. Take 8 oz lean pork
  2. Get 1 garlic clove, smashed
  3. Make ready 1⁄2 green pepper, cut into bite-sized pieces
  4. Get 1⁄2 onion, cut into bite-sized pieces
  5. Prepare 2 small tomatoes cut into wedges
  6. Get 8 oz canned pineapple chunks, drained, reserving liquid
  7. Make ready As needed Oil for deep frying and for stir-frying. I use Peanut Oil
  8. Make ready marinade
  9. Get 1 beaten egg, use 1/2 for the marinade, discard the rest, or save, whatever
  10. Get 1 tbs soy sauce
  11. Get 1 tbs rice wine vinegar
  12. Take 2 1⁄2 tbs cornstarch
  13. Prepare Cornstarch for dredging the pork
  14. Get sauce
  15. Prepare 3 tbs rice wine vinegar
  16. Make ready 2 tbs brown sugar
  17. Prepare 1 tsp tomato paste. I use the type in a tube
  18. Take 1 tbs ketchup
  19. Make ready 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
  20. Take 2 tsp soy sauce
  21. Make ready reserved pineapple juice
  22. Get 2 tsp cornstarch

For the sauce, place a frying pan over a medium heat and add the oil. Sweet and Sour Pork is a Cantonese dish (咕嚕肉 or gū lō yuk) where tender pieces of pork are deep fried until crispy and then stir fried with vegetables and pineapple in a sweet and sour sauce. Its characteristic orange-red color comes from ketchup, which makes it especially appealing to kids and. Don't call the takeaway - cook your own sweet & sour pork using a vibrant marinade and tinned pineapple.

Instructions to make Sweet and Sour Pork:
  1. Cut pork into bite-sized pieces and add to the marinade. Let sit for at least 30 minutes. Heat deep fat oil to 380f. Dredge pork in cornstarch and put into oil for about 2 minutes, drain.
  2. Just before cooking the vegetables, refry the pork @410f until lightly browned
  3. Mix sauce ingredients
  4. Put some oil in a wok and stir fry garlic until brown; remove
  5. Add green pepper and onions and stir fry until tender-crisp
  6. Add sauce mixture and stir until thickened
  7. Add pork, tomato, pineapple, and heat. Serve over rice

Its characteristic orange-red color comes from ketchup, which makes it especially appealing to kids and. Don't call the takeaway - cook your own sweet & sour pork using a vibrant marinade and tinned pineapple. Swap the pork for chicken or prawns if you prefer. Making sweet and sour sauce is easier than you think. It is composed of sugar, vinegar, and ketchup.

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