Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, sweet and sour pork. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sweet and sour pork is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Sweet and sour pork is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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 first prepare a few components. You can cook sweet and sour pork using 18 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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

In a bowl, combine all marinade ingredients with the pork. Place the corn flour in a large bowl and toss the marinated pork chunks until liberally coated. How to cook Sweet and Sour Pork the panlasangpinoy way. Sweet and sour pork 咕噜肉/咕老肉 is the traditional Chinese cuisine with a universal appeal.

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!

It is easy to prepare, kids friendly, which is perfect for any busy home cooks. The pork pieces are doused in a thick, spoon-coating sauce with a constant pull between sweet and sour. Making sweet and sour sauce is easier than you think. It is composed of sugar, vinegar, and ketchup. Sweet and sour pork doesn't need an introduction.

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