Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

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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. Sweet and sour pork is arguably one of the most popular Chinese dishes in the United States, but as with most classic dishes, it's difficult to find a go-to recipe.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. 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. Prepare Sauce
  2. Get 250 g pork or chicken, diced
  3. Take 25 g butter
  4. Make ready 1 large onion
  5. Make ready 500 g tinned pineapple pieces (1 big tin or 2 smaller ones)
  6. Prepare 1 tbsp brown sugar
  7. Get 1 tsp cornflour
  8. Prepare 1 juice (orange, tropical etc)
  9. Take Egg fried rice
  10. Prepare Cooked rice
  11. Make ready 1 medium onion
  12. Take 2 rashers bacon
  13. Prepare 2 eggs
  14. Prepare 2 tbsp oil
  15. Get 1 tsp soy sauce
  16. Make ready Peas (optional)

Place the corn flour in a large bowl and toss the marinated pork chunks until liberally coated. 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. Making sweet and sour sauce is easier than you think.

Instructions 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.

It is composed of sugar, vinegar, and ketchup. Heat a separate pan then pour-in the sweet and sour sauce ingredients. This sweet and sour pork recipe is easier than picking up a phone. Use a packet of ready-cooked rice for the egg fried rice. In a large bowl, combine the soy sauce, sake (or dry sherry) and a tablespoon of the cornflour.

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