Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, sweet and sour pork. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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 咕噜肉/咕老肉 is the traditional Chinese cuisine with a universal appeal.

Sweet and sour pork is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Sweet and sour pork is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have sweet and sour pork using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet and sour pork:
  1. Take Sauce
  2. Get 250 g pork or chicken, diced
  3. Make ready 25 g butter
  4. Make ready 1 large onion
  5. Get 500 g tinned pineapple pieces (1 big tin or 2 smaller ones)
  6. Make ready 1 tbsp brown sugar
  7. Prepare 1 tsp cornflour
  8. Take 1 juice (orange, tropical etc)
  9. Prepare Egg fried rice
  10. Take Cooked rice
  11. Take 1 medium onion
  12. Make ready 2 rashers bacon
  13. Make ready 2 eggs
  14. Make ready 2 tbsp oil
  15. Make ready 1 tsp soy sauce
  16. Prepare Peas (optional)

Pork is marinated and cooked in sweet and sour sauce which consist of sugar, vinegar, ketchup, pineapple. 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. 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.

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.

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. It is composed of sugar, vinegar, and ketchup. Heat a separate pan then pour-in the sweet and sour sauce ingredients. If you order sweet and sour pork from a Chinese restaurant, then you might remember that the pork is often heavily fried in oil before tossing with the sauce.

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