Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple

Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple

Overview

Sweet and sour meat, also known as ancient meat. It is a famous dish of Han nationality in Guangdong. This dish began in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, many foreigners in Guangzhou liked to eat Chinese food very much, especially sweet and sour pork ribs, but they were not used to spitting out the bones when eating. Guangdong chefs mix the meat from the bone with seasoning and starch to make large meatballs, deep-fry them in oil until crispy, and coat them with sweet and sour marinade. The meatballs are sweet and sour and are popular among Chinese and foreign guests. Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs has an older history, and now it has been renamed as Ancient Meat after being remade. Foreigners are not sure of the pronunciation, so they often call the ancient meat sweet and sour meat. Because it is elastic when you eat it and makes a rattling sound when you chew it, the two names have coexisted for a long time. This dish enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.

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Ingredients

Steps

  1. Prepare the ingredients (and half a pineapple)

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 1

  2. Dice the green and red peppers, shred the ginger, chop the green onions, cut the pineapple into small pieces and soak in salt water for about 25 minutes, cut the meat into thin slices of about 1 cm and set aside

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 2

  3. Mix the meat with half a teaspoon of salt, green onions, ginger, 2 teaspoons of cooking wine, 1 teaspoon of pepper, and 1 teaspoon of starch. Marinate it for about 10 minutes. Beat the eggs and set aside

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 3

  4. Add 1 tsp of cooking oil to the marinated meat and stir it (this will make it easy to cut apart when frying and the chicken will not stick together)

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 4

  5. Mix 5 teaspoons of starch and 2 teaspoons of flour thoroughly, and coat the marinated meat with egg liquid

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 5

  6. Coat it evenly with flour

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 6

  7. Do it all in this way

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 7

  8. Pour oil into the pot and heat it until it is 60% hot, add the meat coated in flour, and fry slowly over medium-low heat, turning frequently during the process

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 8

  9. Fry until the surface changes color and take it out

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 9

  10. Heat the oil in the pot again, fry the meat again until golden brown on both sides, take it out and set aside

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 10

  11. Clean the pot, heat it with oil, add in the chopped green and red chilies and stir-fry the chopped pork

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 11

  12. Add pineapple and stir-fry for a few times, set aside

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 12

  13. In a small bowl, pour 6 teaspoons of tomato sauce, 3 teaspoons of sugar, 3 teaspoons of white vinegar, 1/3 teaspoon of salt, 1 tsp of chicken essence, and 1/2 teaspoon of starch, mix well, pour into the pot, and bring to a boil over high heat

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 13

  14. After the soup thickens, add green and red peppers and pineapple, then add the pork belly and stir-fry evenly until the soup is completely coated in the pork belly

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 14

  15. Start eating, sweet and sour, delicious...

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 15

  16. Finished product pictures

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  17. Finished product pictures

    Sweet and Sour Pork with Pineapple step 17