Chinese Recipes - Sweet Sour Pork Recipe

Ingredients

• 300 g ( 10 oz) pork tenderloin

• 1 tablespoon soy sauce

• 1/2 tablespoon cooking wine

• ginger juice

• 1 small bamboo shoot

• 2 dried mushrooms (soaked)

• 1 small onion & carrot

• 1 green pepper

• 2 slices pineapple

• 1 clove garlic

• 3 tablespoons oil

• 1 tablespoon ketchup

• 6 tablespoons sugar

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce

• 1 teaspoon salt

• dash of monosodium glutamate (MSG)

• 3/4 cup soup stock

• 3 tablespoons vinegar

• 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

4 servings

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Method:

1. Cut pork into bite size cubes. Marinate pork in soy sauce, wine, ginger juice for 15 minutes. Add starch.

2. Coat pork with starch. Fry in 185° (370°F) oil till crisp. Drain.

3. Thin slice bamboo shoot. Cut pineapple in 6 sections. Slice mushroom. Cut onion and green peppers in 8 sections. Slice carrot and cut into flower pattern and boil in water until soft.

4. Heat oil. Add garlic, onion, mushroom, bamboo shoot, green pepper. Fry quickly. Add ketchup, sugar, soy sauce and salt and soup. Bring to boil.

5. Thicken with cornstarch mixed with. water. Add vinegar. Add fried pork, pineapple. Mix well. Serve while hot.