Sweet and sour pork
Dish: Main
Number: 4
Country: China
The sweet and sour pork is one of the most popular dishes that we can find in Chinese restaurants, its combination of sweet and sour flavors make this dish unique and irresistible, who needs to go to a Chinese restaurant if we can prepare this wonderful dish at home?
The sweet and sour pork is a very easy and quick recipe to prepare and the ingredients we always have at home, you will be surprised how easy it is to prepare it and how delicious it is.
The sweet and sour pork is a very colorful dish, basically consists of breading the pork in flour and cornstarch and then frying it to provide a crunchy texture, additionally a very easy to prepare sweet and sour sauce is added, which is the protagonist of this recipe.
To prepare sweet and sour sauce, is nothing more than mixing certain ingredients such as rice vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, ketchup, among others, we invite you to follow our step by step videos below where we will show you in a simple way how to make sweet and sour pork! And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to leave us a comment.
Ingredients to prepare Sweet and sour pork
- 1 kg. pork cut into strips
- 3 tablespoons light soy sauce
- 1 beaten egg
- 3 tablespoons sake
- 1 tablespoon white pepper
- Salt to taste
- 125 ml. water (for the sauce)
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce (for the sauce)
- 3 tablespoons tomato ketchup (for the sauce)
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar (for the sauce)
- 2 tablespoons sugar (for the sauce)
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch diluted in 50 ml. of water (for the sauce)
- 1 pinch of salt (for the sauce)
- 50 g. wheat flour (for batter)
- 50 g. cornstarch (for breading)
- Sesame seeds for decoration
- Sunflower oil
How To Make Sweet and sour pork
Step 1: We begin the preparation of our sweet and sour pork, for this, we introduce the pork in a bowl and add the soy sauce, the rice wine, the beaten egg, salt, pepper and mix everything very well until integrating (we reserve the pork for 30 minutes in the refrigerator).
Step 2: In a bowl we mix the wheat flour with the cornstarch and we are going to coat our pork, when we have it ready, in a pan with oil at medium high temperature, we are going to fry it until they take a golden color (we remove and place our pork in a dish with absorbent paper to remove excess fat).
Step 3: We are now going to prepare our sweet and sour sauce, to do this in a pan add the water, ketchup, soy sauce, rice vinegar, salt, sugar and mix until everything is well integrated, then add the cornstarch diluted in water and let it cook for a few minutes until the sauce takes a thick texture.
Step 4: Add our pork strips and mix with the sauce until completely covered, remove from heat, add sesame seeds on top and we have our sweet and sour pork ready! enjoy!
Tips for preparing Sweet and sour pork
In this sweet and sour pork recipe the sauce should have a thick texture, if you see that the sauce does not have that texture, add a little more cornstarch diluted in water.
For this sweet and sour pork recipe, you can use any cut of pork.
What can we accompany Sweet and sour pork?
Accompany this delicious sweet and sour pork with a delicious Chinese fried rice.
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