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 current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Sweet and sour pork is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet and sour pork using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet and sour pork:
  1. Make ready Sauce
  2. Prepare 250 g pork or chicken, diced
  3. Make ready 25 g butter
  4. Take 1 large onion
  5. Take 500 g tinned pineapple pieces (1 big tin or 2 smaller ones)
  6. Take 1 tbsp brown sugar
  7. Make ready 1 tsp cornflour
  8. Get 1 juice (orange, tropical etc)
  9. Get Egg fried rice
  10. Take Cooked rice
  11. Prepare 1 medium onion
  12. Prepare 2 rashers bacon
  13. Take 2 eggs
  14. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  15. Make ready 1 tsp soy sauce
  16. Take Peas (optional)

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.

Instructions to make Sweet and sour pork:
  1. Drain juice from pineapple and top up with juice until you have 300ml of liquid, add 200ml of water
  2. Put sugar and cornflour in bowl, add a little of the juice mixture and mix. This will make a wet paste with hopefully no lumps. When done add the rest of the juice and mix again
  3. Chop onion and fry slowly with butter.
  4. Cut meat into small pieces and add to onions. Seal the meat. Once done, add the juice mixture and season
  5. Bring to the boil then add pineapple.
  6. Simmer at least 3/4 hour or 1 1/2 hours in oven, medium heat.
  7. When you have 15min left on the sauce, cook rice
  8. If you are adding peas then cook them now
  9. While the rice is cooking, finely chop the onions and fry with the oil in frying pan
  10. Cut bacon into 2cm pieces and fry with onions
  11. Add cooked rice (and peas) to bacon and onion and mix.
  12. Make hole in middle and pour in two beaten eggs. Gradually scramble and mix with rice
  13. Add salt, pepper and soy sauce.
  14. Serve the rice and sauce together.

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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