Sweet and Sour Pork
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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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Main ingredient
- 9 oz pork Shopping tip: Pork tenderloin or boneless loin chops, sliced thin.
Fresh & other
- 1 egg
- Dash water
- 1 ¼ tsp sugar
- ½ oz starch
- 1 ⅓ oz tomato paste Shopping tip: Tomato paste (UK: tomato purée), in a small can or tube.
- Dash cilantro
Sauces & oils
- ½ oz soy sauce
- ½ oz vinegar
Spices & seasonings (1): salt
- ¾ tsp salt
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Crack the egg into a bowl.
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Separate the egg white and yolk.
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Sweet and Sour Pork, 2.
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Slice the pork tenderloin into strips, 3.
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Prepare your marinade using pinch of salt, one of starch, two teaspoons light soy sauce, and an egg white.
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Marinade the pork strips for around 20 minutes, 5.
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Put the remaining starch in a bowl.
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Add some water plus vinegar to make a starchy sauce.
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Sweet and Sour Pork, cooking Instructions, 1.
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Pour the cooking oil into a wok.
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Heat to 375°F.
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Add the marinated pork strips.
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Fry them until they turn brown.
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Remove the cooked pork from the wok.
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Place on a plate, 2.
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Leave some oil in the wok.
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Put the tomato sauce and white sugar in the wok.
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Heat till the oil and sauce are fully mixed, 3.
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Add some water to the wok and well heat your sweet plus sour sauce before adding your pork strips to it, 4.
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Pour in the starchy sauce.
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Mix-fry all the ingredients till the pork and sauce are well mixed together, 5.
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Serve on a plate.
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Add some coriander for decoration.
On the side: Steamed rice
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (25 min)
- Rinse the rice. Simmer it covered in water (2 cups per cup of rice) for about 18 minutes, then let it sit 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.