sweet & sour pork

This Chinese stir-fried dish is made from pork tenderloin, pineapple chunks, bell peppers and onion with a sweet and tangy sauce. A delicious homemade dish that is better than take out. 
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Pork tenderloins will need to be marinated for few hours first and when ready, a batter similar to a pancake mix consistency is needed to make a crispy coating for the pork tenderloins. It's a combination of flour, cornstarch, salt and beaten egg.

The sweet & sour sauce is very easy to make. Just combine pineapple juice from the pineapple chunks in can,  water, brown sugar, salt and banana sauce / ketchup. 

And as usual, we need a sauce thickener which is a cornstarch diluted in water. 

sweet & sour pork recipe

Ingredients: 

• 1 pound pork tenderloin / top loin (cubed or cut into bite sized pieces)
• 1 cup pineapple chunks ( I used the one in can and reserved the juice )
• 4-6 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 medium onion, quartered
• 1/2 green bell pepper, cut into cubes
• 1/2 red bell pepper, cut into cubes
• 1/2 yellow bell pepper, cut into cubes
• Cooking oil for sauteing 

​​Batter:

• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/3 cup cornstarch
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 1/4 cups water

Sweet & Sour Sauce:

• 1/2 cup pineapple juice
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup banana sauce / ketchup
• 1 tsp salt

Thickener:

• 2 tbsp cornstarch dissolved in 1/2 cup water

watch my video below how to cook this dish.

Procedure: 

• ​​Mix the sweet and sour sauce ingredients well and set aside.
• Beat the batter ingredients with a hand beater until smooth.
• Stir pork into batter until well coated.
• In a deep skillet, add in the cooking oil enough for deep-frying. Once the oil is hot, deep fry the pork pieces until they turn golden brown and crispy. Dish out and drain on paper towels.
• Heat up a wok and add in some cooking oil.
• Add in the chopped garlic and stir fry until light brown.
• Add onion and cook until translucent.
• Add bell peppers and pineapple chunks.
• Stir fry until you smell the peppery aroma from the peppers.
• Add in the sweet and sour sauce. 
• Add the dissolved cornstarch.
  
• As soon as the sauce thickens, add the crispy fried pork pieces. Stir well with the sauce.
• Serve hot with steamed white rice.

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