Sweet & Sour Pork (Chinese)

Name: Sweet & Sour Pork (Chinese)
Yield: 4 Servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 kg Cubed Pork Loin; 3 Tbls Soy Sauce; 1 Tsp Baking Soda; 1 Tsp Salt; 6 Drops Red Food Colouring; 1 Cup White Sugar (200g); 2 Tbls Corn Flour; 2 Pinchs Salt; 1.5 Cups Water (270ml); 1 Tbls White or Apple Cider Vinigar; 2 Tsp Soy Sauce; Half Tbls Minced Garlic; Half cup (1Lge) Carrot - Angle sliced; Half Onion cut into wedges; Half cup 3colour Capsicum - thinly sliced; 2 Pinapple Rings cut into pieces; 3 Eggs; 2 Cups Plain Flour; 1 Ltr Oil (Deepfry)

Ellen McLean-Armitage @cook_18339787

We wanted to Google Search & watch Youtube videos on How to D.I.Y homemade Chinese Sweet & Sour Pork and taste just like our local Chinese Shop and save money!... & It Worked!!!
*Special Fried Rice" also accompanied this dish (refer separate recepie "Chinese Special Fried Rice").

Ellen McLean-Armitage @cook_18339787

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Ingredients

4 Servings

Pork Prep & Marinade
1 kgCubed Pork Loin
3 TblsSoy Sauce
1 TspBaking Soda
1 TspSalt
6 DropsRed Food Colouring
Sweet & Sour Sauce
1 CupWhite Sugar (200g)
2 TblsCorn Flour
2Pinchs Salt
1.5 CupsWater (270ml)
1 TblsWhite or Apple Cider Vinigar
2 TspSoy Sauce
Vegies for Sweet & Sour Sauce
HalfTbls Minced Garlic
Halfcup (1Lge) Carrot - Angle sliced
HalfOnion cut into wedges
Halfcup 3colour Capsicum - thinly sliced
2Pinapple Rings cut into pieces
PiecesBatter & Deepfry Pork
3Eggs
2 CupsPlain Flour
1 LtrOil (Deepfry)

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Steps

1

Pork - Cut & Cube (1 inch sq) and Add into a ziplock bag with the Pork Marinade ingredients. Refrigerate overnight or for at least 3hrs to tenderise the meat.
2

Sauce - Add Ingredients into a medium saucepan on high, wisk whilst bringing to the boil. Once boiled it will become clear & thicken. Once this happens remove from stovetop & set aside.
3

Fry Vegies & Combine with Sauce - add a splash of peanut/evo Oil into hot frypan/wok. Add Garlic cook off, add Carrots, Capsicum & Onion sweat down a little, then add pineapple. Fry for a minute then add Sweet & Sour Sauce and simmer on low to soften vegies.
4

Prep/Batter & Deepfry Pork pces - Heat Oil in Saucepan (350*). Dip pork into egg then cover in flour & repeat! Once all pork pieces are double dipped, add to Medium Heat stovetop, ladle into oil & pre-cook until 3/4 cooked, remove & drain excess oil onto paper towel. Redo pork pieces into Hot oil in batches until all double Deepfried.