Sweet and Sour Pork

Name: Sweet and Sour Pork
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 26 min
Total time: 41 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 7 oz pork; 1 egg; Dash water; ½ tsp salt; 1 tsp sugar; ⅓ oz soy sauce; ⅓ oz starch; 1 oz tomato paste; ⅓ oz vinegar; Dash cilantro

A Chinese dinner. Ready in about 41 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

15 minPrep (about)
26 minCook (about)
41 minTotal time
4Servings
MediumDifficulty

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 4 people +

Recipe makes 4

Main ingredient

7 oz pork Shopping tip: Pork tenderloin or boneless loin chops, sliced thin.

Fresh & other

1 egg
Dash water
1 tsp sugar
⅓ oz starch
1 oz tomato paste Shopping tip: Tomato paste (UK: tomato purée), in a small can or tube.
Dash cilantro

Sauces & oils

⅓ oz soy sauce
⅓ oz vinegar

Spices & seasonings (1): salt

½ tsp salt

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

Crack the egg into a bowl.
Separate the egg white and yolk.
Sweet and Sour Pork, 2.
Slice the pork tenderloin into strips, 3.
Prepare your marinade using pinch of salt, one of starch, two teaspoons light soy sauce, and an egg white.
Marinade the pork strips for around 20 minutes, 5.
Put the remaining starch in a bowl.
Add some water plus vinegar to make a starchy sauce.
Sweet and Sour Pork, cooking Instructions, 1.
Pour the cooking oil into a wok.
Heat to 375°F.
Add the marinated pork strips.
Fry them until they turn brown.
Remove the cooked pork from the wok.
Place on a plate, 2.
Leave some oil in the wok.
Put the tomato sauce and white sugar in the wok.
Heat till the oil and sauce are fully mixed, 3.
Add some water to the wok and well heat your sweet plus sour sauce before adding your pork strips to it, 4.
Pour in the starchy sauce.
Mix-fry all the ingredients till the pork and sauce are well mixed together, 5.
Serve on a plate.
Add some coriander for decoration.