Sweet and sour pork
Sweet and sour pork

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Sweet and sour pork is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Sweet and sour pork is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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. It is easy to prepare, kids friendly, which is perfect for any busy home cooks.

To begin 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 can achieve that.

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

Swap the pork for chicken or prawns if you prefer. 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 The pork is coated and fried until crispy, with tons of nooks and crannies that catch the sweet and sour sauce. You can use almost any cut of pork for. 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.

You can use almost any cut of pork for. 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. Chef John's sweet and sour pork with pineapple and green onions is a lighter version of the Chinese take-out classic.

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