Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

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Sweet and sour pork is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Sweet and sour pork is something that I have loved my entire life.

The best ever Sweet and Sour Pork recipe is loaded with tricks the Chinese have been using for centuries: double dredge and double fry for extra crispy, cornflour instead of flour, economical pork used for juiciness, but tenderised BONUS: oven baked Sweet and Sour Pork directions included! Sweet and Sour Pork is an iconic Chinese recipe and classic Cantonese dish. Called "咕嚕肉" or "goo lou yok" in Cantonese dialect, this recipe is very pleasing to the palate because of the flavorsome sweet and sour sauce—the sweetness from sugar plus the tangy ketchup and sharp rice.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook sweet and sour pork using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet and sour pork:
  1. Get Pork
  2. Prepare 2 lb pork, boned and trimmed, cut into chunks
  3. Take 2 tbsp soy sauce
  4. Get 2 clove garlic, minced
  5. Prepare 1 inch ginger, minced
  6. Prepare 5 tbsp vegetable oil
  7. Take 1 red bell pepper, julianned
  8. Take 1 small onion, chopped
  9. Take 2 cup vegetable oil, for frying
  10. Prepare 1/2 cup cornstarch
  11. Get Sauce
  12. Prepare 1/2 cup ketchup
  13. Prepare 1/2 cup vinegar
  14. Take 1/2 cup water
  15. Make ready 2 tbsp soy sauce
  16. Take 1 cup sugar
  17. Take 1 1/2 cup orange marmalade
  18. Make ready 2 clove garlic, minced
  19. Take 1 inch ginger, minced
  20. Prepare 1 tsp chili oil
  21. Make ready 1 can crushed pineapple, with juice
  22. Make ready 4 tbsp cornstarch
  23. Make ready 4 tbsp water
  24. Take Garnish
  25. Get 3 stick scallion, julianned

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. 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.

Instructions to make Sweet and sour pork:
  1. Seal pork chunks in a bag or glass bowl along with soy sauce, garlic, ginger and oil. Let marinade for at least 30 minutes.
  2. 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.
  3. Heat oil in dutch oven to 350'F.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Serve with scallions on top.

In a separate bowl, mix all the. 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. Sweet and sour pork is so much better when it hasn't been under heat lamps for hours sitting in a buffet tray. When you make it yourself, you'll be amazed at the difference.

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