【Beijing】Sweet and Sour Pork

Overview

The tenderloin is tender and is used to make sweet and sour pork tenderloin, which is charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It is even more appetizing especially when wrapped in rich sweet and sour sauce. There are not many proportions in the preparation of sweet and sour sauce, it can be completely adjusted according to personal preference. If you like sweet food, you can add more sweetness, so if you like it sour, you can add a few drops of vinegar. A small amount of soy sauce and tomato paste are used to adjust the color. Whether it is a New Year's Eve dinner or a regular meal, this sweet and sour pork dish is absolutely popular, especially among children.

Tags

• hot dishes
• shandong cuisine
• zhejiang cuisine
• clear water
• cooking wine
• egg
• pork tenderloin
• rice vinegar
• starch
• white sesame
• white sugar
• chopped green onion
• ketchup
• salt
• soy sauce

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Cut the pork tenderloin into little-thumb-sized pieces. Cut it horizontally, not along the shreds. I used 400 grams of meat, which is a little too much. You can adjust it accordingly

   

2. 2 Add 1 gram of salt, a small spoonful of sugar, and a little cooking wine to the meat strips, mix well, and marinate for 15 minutes

   

3. 3 Add an egg

   

4. 4 Mix well and marinate for 10 minutes

   

5. 5 When marinating the meat, adjust the sweet and sour sauce: 30 grams of white sugar, 30 grams of rice vinegar, 20 grams of soy sauce, 2 grams of salt, a tablespoon of tomato paste, and an appropriate amount of water to dilute the sauce; you can use white vinegar, preferably not mature vinegar; you can taste the sweet and sour mixed sauce and adjust as appropriate; scoop a small spoonful of starch in another bowl and add water and set aside

   

6. 6 Prepare two plates, put starch on one plate, coat the meat strips with starch and put it on the other plate, coat all the meat strips with starch

   

7. 7 Pour half a pot of oil into the frying pan. When it is 70-80% hot, put the meat strips into the oil pan one by one. When the meat strips become hard and set, take them out. 400 grams of meat strips should be fried in three times

   

8. 8 Heat the oil in the pan over high heat again, put all the fried meat strips into the pan and fry again. Take them out if the surface is slightly browned

   

9. 9 Leave the oil in the pot and stir-fry the chopped green onion until fragrant

   

10. 10 Pour the prepared sweet and sour sauce into the pot and bring to a boil

    

11. 11 Pour in water starch to thicken the sweet and sour sauce

    

12. 12 Pour the meat strips into the pot, coat evenly with the sweet and sour sauce, and sprinkle with a handful of sesame seeds

    

13. 13 Sweet and sour, charred on the outside and tender on the inside