Sweet and Sour Pork

Submitted by ellie_

"Sweet and Sour pork is good with white steamed rice. Recipe adapted from Joyce Chen Cook Book."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 2 cups cubed pork
• 1 tablespoon sherry wine
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups cooking oil (I use peanut)
• 2⁄3 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup catsup
• 1⁄3 cup pineapple juice
• 1⁄2 cup cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch, mixed with
• 1⁄3 cup water
• 1 cup pineapple chunk
• 1 cup snow peas, sliced (optional)
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch

directions

1. Mix pork, sherry, soy sauce, cornstarch and salt in bowl.
2. Separate pieces and fry in oil (350°F) until crisp on edges and well done (8-10 minutes).
3. Drain well and put pork on paper towels.
4. Keep warm.
5. Next make the sweet and sour sauce.
6. Mix next 2/3 cup sugar, catsup, pineapple juice, cider vinegar and soy sauce in bowl and set aside.
7. In a saucepan heat the remaining one tablespoon oil and brown garlic.
8. Throw away garlic.
9. Add sugar/vinegar mixture to saucepan and cook until mixture boils.
10. Stir in corn-starch/water mixture, stirring constantly until it thickens.
11. Add pineapple chunks and snow peas (if using), then add pork.
12. Mix well.

Reviews

[Karen Elizabeth]

Okay, we did like this, but, it was too sweet for us. I did stick to recipe, so, I dont know, we dont have particularly sweet teeth, but at the same time, this seemed excessivley sweet. I also would have preferred the ingredients to be laid out more logically, the cornflour especially I had to make a bit of a guess about which amount applied where. For an inexperienced chef this might be a bit daunting. I used snowpeas and baby corn, I liked the previous reviewers use of bell pepper and would do that another time. I think in future I would drastically cut down on the sugar used, and then add a little more according to taste, if I thought it necessary. We did enjoy it, and thank you for sharing. made for PRMR tag game

 

[Hey Jude]

This turned out really well but I had to guess at the cornstarch ingredient in step #1, I used about 1/2 cup and that seemed adequate. The sauce is awesome, the apple vinegar really kicks it up a bit! I added a cubed sweet pepper from my garden. Thanks Ellie, good recipe!