Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sweet and sour pork. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Sweet and sour pork is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Sweet and sour pork is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

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

The pork is coated and fried until crispy, with tons of nooks and crannies that catch the sweet and sour sauce. Making sweet and sour sauce is easier than you think. It is composed of sugar, vinegar, and ketchup. Heat a separate pan then pour-in the sweet and sour sauce 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.

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. Swap the pork for chicken or prawns if you prefer. Of course sweet and sour pork has a sweet sauce but this homemade version has just the right amount and is perfectly balanced with a splash of vinegar and lots of flavor from fresh ginger and garlic.

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