Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, sweet and sour pork. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, 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 popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Sweet and sour pork is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

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

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. 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!

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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