Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet and sour pork. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sweet and sour pork is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Sweet and sour pork is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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.

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

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

Steps 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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