Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

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Cubed pork and stir-fried vegetables are coated in a mouthwatering sweet and sour sauce prepared with simple ingredients. Drain pineapple, reserving juice; set aside. In a small bowl, combine the cornstarch, brown sugar, salt, ginger and pepper.

Sweet and sour pork is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Sweet and sour pork is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sweet and sour pork using 18 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet and sour pork:
  1. Take 600 g pork shoulder steaks
  2. Get 2 tsp salt
  3. Get 3 tbsp brandy
  4. Take 1 green pepper
  5. Take 3 spring onions
  6. Prepare 100 g bamboo shoots
  7. Take 2 free range eggs
  8. Prepare 2 tablespoons cornflour
  9. Take 6 tablespoons sieved plain white flour
  10. Get 200 ml pure vegetable oil
  11. Make ready Sauce
  12. Prepare 3 tbsp white vinegar
  13. Get 3 tbsp caster sugar
  14. Get 1 teaspoon salt
  15. Get 1 tbsp tomato purée
  16. Get 1 tbsp light soy sauce
  17. Get 1 tbsp cornflour
  18. Get 1 tsp sesame seed oil

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 vinegar—with the crispy fried pork pieces. For the sauce, place a frying pan over a medium heat and add the oil. Sauté the garlic until fragrant, then fry the peppers until soften. In a separate bowl, mix all the coating ingredients.

Steps to make Sweet and sour pork:
  1. Discard the large pieces of fat from the pork steaks. Cut the remaining meat into bitesize chunks.
  2. Place the brandy and the salt into a container. Add the pork pieces and stir or shake well. Leave to stand for 15 minutes. This will help to flavour and tenderise the pork.
  3. While you're waiting for the pork to marinade you should begin making the sauce. Measure out all the sauce ingredients in a large jug and mix really well. You can taste test it at this point. The sugar and vinegar should balance each other out. #previewflavour
  4. Cut the green pepper into similar sized chunks as the pork. You can use any colour pepper. Green is just a nice contrasting colour for this dish.
  5. Roughly chop the spring onions into 1 cm chunks.
  6. Measure out your bamboo shoots. I've made this dish numerous times without the shoots so if they're hard to get in your area don't worry. It will still be amazing without them. Mine came from a local supermarket (Tesco UK).
  7. Break the two free range eggs into your marinated pork and add the cornflour. Mix well.
  8. Measure out your sieved plain white flour into a shallow bowl.
  9. Now take each piece of eggy pork and coat in plain white flour. Then set aside onto a plate. If you run out of plain white flour just sieve out some more.
  10. I like to split my flour coated pork into batches ready for frying. Discard the left over egg.
  11. Add the vegetable oil to a wok. Heat over a medium flame.
  12. Now start shallow frying your pork for 3 minutes per batch. It should turn golden brown, fry all sides evenly. A metal perforated spoon is extremely helpful during this step.
  13. Line a shallow bowl with paper towels. After each batch of pork has finished cooking transfer to this bowl. The paper will help soak up some of the excess fat and keep things nice and crispy.
  14. Discard the oil used during the shallow frying. Be very careful with this oil it will be extremely hot. Clean the wok and add some fresh vegetable oil.
  15. Re-fry the meat with the bamboo shoots for 2 minutes.
  16. Remove the paper from your shallow bowl and transfer the fried meat and bamboo shoots back into it.
  17. In your now empty wok add a tiny bit more vegetable oil and fry the green peppers for 2 minutes.
  18. Add the spring onions to the peppers and continue to fry for 1 minute.
  19. Give the sauce a thorough stir and add into the wok. Cook and stir until it thickens. Keep the sauce moving otherwise the cornflour will go lumpy.
  20. Add the fried pork and bamboo shoots back into the wok combine everything well.
  21. Serve hot with rice. I recommend egg / special fried rice as a good accompaniment. Enjoy!

Drain any excess liquid off the pork and toss the pork in the seasoned coating. Sweet and sour pork is arguably one of the most popular Chinese dishes in the United States, but as with most classic dishes, it's difficult to find a go-to recipe. The pork is coated and fried until crispy, with tons of nooks and crannies that catch the sweet and sour sauce. No matter where you go, sweet and sour pork is featured on almost every Chinese restaurant menu. Coated pieces of meat are deep fried until golden and crunchy, then tossed in a vibrant sauce that packs a balance of sweet and tart flavors.

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