Easy Sweet and Sour Pork Recipe

This easy Sweet and sour pork recipe is one of the most well-known Chinese dishes outside of China. It is believed to be a Cantonese dish, known as gú lóuh yuhk, which roughly translates to “ancient pork”.

Sweet and sour pork is simple, straightforward, and easy to follow. The result is delicious. You should try it for yourself.

This dish is best eaten with rice. To make it special, pair it with Chowking-Style Chao Fan (fried rice). The recipe may be found HERE.

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Easy Sweet and Sour Pork Recipe

Recipe by Yummy FoodCourse: MainCuisine: ChineseDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

30

minutes

Cooking time

30

minutes

Calories

490

kcal

Total time

1

hour 

This easy Sweet and sour pork recipe is one of the most well-known Chinese dishes outside of China.

Ingredients

• 1/2 kilo pork loin, sliced into pieces

• 1 small can pineapple chunks

• 1 large onion, quartered

• 1 red & 1 green bell peppers, sliced into strips

• 2 tablespoons soy sauce

• 3 tablespoons peanut oil

• 4 tablespoons cornstarch

• 3 tablespoons ketchup

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 3 cloves garlic, minced

Directions

• In a pot, boil pork in 2 cups of water with 1/2 teaspoon of salt until tender, then drain (keep the pork stock for later).
• Mix 2 tablespoons of cornstarch and soy sauce then coat the pork with the cornstarch mixture.
• Fry the pork in a skillet until golden brown, set aside.
• Dissolve the remaining 2 tablespoons of cornstarch on 1/2 cup of pork stock – set aside.
• Sauté garlic and onions on oil, then add the bell peppers, pineapple chunks (including the syrup), ketchup, sugar, 1/2 teaspoon salt and the dissolved cornstarch. Stir until sauce thickens.
• Pour over fried pork then serve with rice.

Other PORK recipes may be found HERE.

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