Easy Sweet and Sour Pork
- 1 1/2 pounds pork shoulder lean
- 3/16 cups soy sauce, tamari
- 3/16 cups sherry
- 1 x salt
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup sugar white
- 1/2 cup white vinegar
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch dissolved in
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup pineapple juice
- 3 tablespoons soup, tomato
- 1/4 cup pineapple chunks few pieces of raw carrot, sliced or shredded
- 1/2 each green bell peppers shredded
- 1 each tomatoes cut into wedges
- 1/2 cup pickles, sweet sweet, mixed
- PART 1: 1.
- Cut pork into 1/2x 1/2x inch rectangles.
- Marinate in mixture of salt, soya sauce and sherry for at least half an hour.
- While meat is marinating, prepare Part 2.
- Add 2 tablespoons oil to wok and heat up to smoking point.
- Take a slotted spoon and use it to lift pork pieces from marinate, place in wok and brown meat on all sides.
- Lower heat slightly to medium high and continue to cook meat for a full 15 minutes, using turner to stir pieces occasionally.
- At end of cooking time, place meat in serving dish.
- Pour sauce from Part 2 over it.
- PART 2:
- Place white sugar and vinegar in a small 1 quart pot.
- Boil together until sugar is dissolved.
- Stir up corn starch in 1/4 cup water.
- Add to vinegar-sugar boil.
- Stir solution, lower heat to medium low, add pineapple juice and tomato soup.
- Boil solution 15 to 20 minutes, until it turns from milky red to a clear reddish yellow.
- Add suggested embellishments.
- You can use all of them or some of them.
- Cook 2 minutes.
- Serve over Part 1.
- NOTE: Pork spare ribs cut into 1 1/2 inch lengths may be used in place of pork butt.
- However, spare ribs have more fat than fresh ham or pork butt, so use 1 tablespoon less oil in stir-frying ribs or else discard fat which accumulates in wok when ribs are finished cooking.
- Also Part 2 (sans embellishments) can be made in a larger quantity and store in a covered plastic container in refrigerator for 2 to 3 weeks.
pork shoulder lean, soy sauce, sherry, salt, vegetable oil, sugar white, white vinegar, cornstarch, water, pineapple juice, soup, pineapple, green bell peppers, tomatoes, pickles
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/easy-sweet-sour-pork-44651 (may not work)