Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sweet and sour pork. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Sweet and sour pork is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Sweet and sour pork is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet and sour pork using 25 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet and sour pork:

1. Get Pork
2. Make ready 2 lb pork, boned and trimmed, cut into chunks
3. Get 2 tbsp soy sauce
4. Make ready 2 clove garlic, minced
5. Prepare 1 inch ginger, minced
6. Make ready 5 tbsp vegetable oil
7. Get 1 red bell pepper, julianned
8. Get 1 small onion, chopped
9. Prepare 2 cup vegetable oil, for frying
10. Get 1/2 cup cornstarch
11. Take Sauce
12. Make ready 1/2 cup ketchup
13. Get 1/2 cup vinegar
14. Take 1/2 cup water
15. Make ready 2 tbsp soy sauce
16. Take 1 cup sugar
17. Make ready 1 1/2 cup orange marmalade
18. Prepare 2 clove garlic, minced
19. Get 1 inch ginger, minced
20. Make ready 1 tsp chili oil
21. Prepare 1 can crushed pineapple, with juice
22. Get 4 tbsp cornstarch
23. Make ready 4 tbsp water
24. Make ready Garnish
25. Make ready 3 stick scallion, julianned

Its characteristic orange-red color comes from ketchup, which makes it especially appealing to kids and. In a bowl, combine all marinade ingredients with the pork. Place the corn flour in a large bowl and toss the marinated pork chunks until liberally coated. Making sweet and sour sauce is easier than you think.

Instructions to make Sweet and sour pork:

1. Seal pork chunks in a bag or glass bowl along with soy sauce, garlic, ginger and oil. Let marinade for at least 30 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, make sweet and sour sauce. Add all the sauce ingredients into a sauce pot, except for starch and 4tbsp of water. Bring to a boil. Meanwhile, mix cornstarch and water together to be used as a thickener. Once sauce has begun to boil, add the thickener and then lower heat to simmer. Stir frequently until sauce is nice and thick and all ingredients are well combined.
3. Heat oil in dutch oven to 350'F.
4. Coat the marinated pork in the cornstarch so that the pork will be crispy after frying. Fry half of the pork in the hot oil. Then remove and fry the other half.
5. Last, heat a pan along with two tablespoons of the oil from the dutch oven. Then add onions and peppers. Sautee for until onions are translucent. Then add the pork and sauce. Mix well.
6. Serve with scallions on top.

It is composed of sugar, vinegar, and ketchup. Heat a separate pan then pour-in the sweet and sour sauce ingredients. Sweet and sour pork doesn't need an introduction. It's an internationally famous dish and most cultures have a different spin on it, which I think is absolutely fantastic! Koreans have Tangsuyuk, Japanese have Subuta, the Caribbeans also have their version as well - and I'm sure there are plenty.

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