Sweet & Sour Pork

Name: Sweet & Sour Pork
Cuisine: China
Ingredients: 1 spring onion (scallion), cut into 4 cm (1½ inch) lengths; 75 g (2⅔ oz/⅓ cup) Chinese mixed pickled vegetables; 30 g (1 oz/¼ cup) cornflour (cornstarch); 250 g (9 oz) pork loin, trimmed and finely sliced across the grain; 4 tablespoons rice vinegar; 2 tablespoons tomato sauce (ketchup); 4 tablespoons sugar; vegetable oil, for deep-frying; ½ red capsicum (pepper), diced; 1 egg; 2 tablespoons vegetable oil; ½ small Spanish onion, diced; ¼ knob of ginger, peeled and finely sliced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Balance and Harmony

By Neil Perry

Published 2008

About

This is classic sweet and sour pork; the pork is battered and fried until crisp and then folded into the sauce. I suggest you make your own tomato reduction to thicken the sauce (it is quite easy to do), but if you don’t have the time or inclination bottled tomato sauce will do.

Ingredients

250 g (9 oz) pork loin, trimmed and finely sliced across the grain
30 g (1

Asia
China
Dinner

Method

Whisk the cornflour, egg and 2 tablespoons water into a smooth batter. Add the pork and stir to coat, then set aside for about 10 minutes.

Heat a wok until just smoking. Add the vegetable oil and, when hot, add the ginger, onion, capsicum and spring onion and stir-fry for 1