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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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sweet and sour pork using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet and sour pork:
- Prepare Pork
- Prepare 2 lb pork, boned and trimmed, cut into chunks
- Make ready 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Take 2 clove garlic, minced
- Get 1 inch ginger, minced
- Get 5 tbsp vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 red bell pepper, julianned
- Get 1 small onion, chopped
- Take 2 cup vegetable oil, for frying
- Take 1/2 cup cornstarch
- Make ready Sauce
- Take 1/2 cup ketchup
- Prepare 1/2 cup vinegar
- Take 1/2 cup water
- Prepare 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Prepare 1 cup sugar
- Get 1 1/2 cup orange marmalade
- Take 2 clove garlic, minced
- Get 1 inch ginger, minced
- Take 1 tsp chili oil
- Prepare 1 can crushed pineapple, with juice
- Get 4 tbsp cornstarch
- Get 4 tbsp water
- Make ready Garnish
- Get 3 stick scallion, julianned
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:
- Seal pork chunks in a bag or glass bowl along with soy sauce, garlic, ginger and oil. Let marinade for at least 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make sweet and sour sauce. Add all the sauce ingredients into a sauce pot, except for starch and 4tbsp of water. Bring to a boil. Meanwhile, mix cornstarch and water together to be used as a thickener. Once sauce has begun to boil, add the thickener and then lower heat to simmer. Stir frequently until sauce is nice and thick and all ingredients are well combined.
- Heat oil in dutch oven to 350'F.
- Coat the marinated pork in the cornstarch so that the pork will be crispy after frying. Fry half of the pork in the hot oil. Then remove and fry the other half.
- Last, heat a pan along with two tablespoons of the oil from the dutch oven. Then add onions and peppers. Sautee for until onions are translucent. Then add the pork and sauce. Mix well.
- Serve with scallions on top.
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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