Dishes of various nations of the world, including Chinese, have long won a place on the table of Russian lovers of spicy food. Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples has a tempting combination of different tastes. Fans of dishes like a goose with apples, chicken with oranges will definitely like sour-sweet pork.
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Basic pork recipe in sweet and sour sauce with pineapple
In various available sources, you can find many methods of cooking pork meat with pineapple. Knowing the basic recipe, you can safely dream up on this topic. For example, you can add your favorite vegetables to the meat or seasonings and spices.
To master the basic recipe you will need:
- pork pulp - 0.5 kg;
- pineapples canned in a jar - 300 g;
- Soy sauce - 2 tbsp. l .;
- tomato sauce - 3 tbsp. l .;
- corn starch - 2 tbsp. l .;
- sunflower oil - 50 ml.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Rinse pork pulp (you can take a piece without bone, for example, fillet of loin), rinse under running water, dry and cut into small pieces, which will be conveniently eaten with Chinese chopsticks. This is approximately 2x2 cm. The smaller the slices, the faster the pork will cook!
- Place the meat in a deep bowl (bowl) and cover the top with corn starch or replace it with potato. Roll pieces in starch so that they are completely covered by it.
- Heat a large frying pan over high heat and pour oil. Fry the pork in portions on both sides so that the pieces are browned on all sides.
- Put the meat in a plate.
- Pour pineapple juice from a jar, soy and tomato sauces into a clean pan. Boil for 1-2 minutes.
- Put the meat slices in the resulting boiling liquid and simmer for about 15 minutes over moderate heat, covering with a lid.
- After putting out a little meat, add pineapple pieces to the pan.Stir everything and put out over the smallest fire for 5-7 minutes.
- Serve the finished dish with boiled rice.
Cooking meat in batter
To prepare a soft juicy pork, reminiscent of a classic recipe, you can pre-fry chopped pieces of meat in batter.
To do this, you will need:
- boneless pork - 0.3 kg;
- pieces of canned pineapple - a jar;
- honey - 2 tsp;
- lemon;
- soy sauce - 200 ml;
- wheat or any other flour - 0.2 kg;
- starch (from corn or potato) - 1 tsp;
- baking powder - 1 dessert spoon;
- drinking water - 1 tbsp. l .;
- sweet pepper - 1 pc.
- 1 onion head;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp. l
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cut the pork into small pieces.
- Put in a marinade of honey, lemon juice and soy sauce for an hour.
- While the meat is pickled, chop the pepper and onion (straws and ringlets).
- For batter, combine starch, flour and baking powder together. Stir the mixture with water and oil. The resulting batter mix well.
- Salt the meat in the marinade, mix, roll pieces in batter.
- In a frying pan in hot oil, fry the slices for 5-6 minutes on each side to form a crust. The meat fried in batter will not lose its juiciness in the process of stewing.
- Put the finished meat on a cloth or napkin that absorbs excess fat.
- In the same pan, fry the onions and peppers until golden brown.
- Put meat there, pour over the remaining marinade and simmer for half an hour over medium heat.
- Add pineapples at the end to the pan or when serving.
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With bell pepper
To prepare meat in a sweet and sour sauce with pineapples and vegetables, the following ingredients are added to the basic recipe:
- Bulgarian pepper - 2 pcs.;
- carrot - 1 pc.;
- wine vinegar (can be replaced with apple) - a dessert spoon;
- a pinch of sugar;
- juice from tomatoes (instead of sauce) - 200 ml.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Soak the chopped meat in a mixture of soy sauce and starch for 15-20 minutes.
- Chop pepper and carrots in strips, fry. First lay out the fry carrots, followed by pepper. After a couple of minutes put slices of pineapple on them. Fry vegetables and fruits for about 5 minutes.
- Fry the meat until crusty.
- Add pork and pineapple vegetables to the pork and continue to stew all together, adding tomato juice, a little vinegar and sugar. Cook for about half an hour until the meat is ready.
Oven in sweet and sour sauce with pineapple in the oven
To bake pork medallions in sweet and sour sauce in the oven you will need:
- lean pork without veins and bones - 0.5 kg;
- canned pineapples in a jar - 1 jar;
- soy sauce - 150 g;
- flour - 1 tbsp. l .;
- potato or corn starch - 1 tbsp. l .;
- bell pepper - 1 pc.;
- tomato - 1 pc.;
- ketchup;
- carrot - 1 pc.;
- apple or wine vinegar - 1 tbsp. l
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cut the meat into medallions, beat, pour the marinade from part of the soy sauce (100 ml), all flour and starch.
- Cut pepper, tomato (peeling), carrots. Fry the carrots with pepper until golden brown, add tomato, pineapple to them and simmer for another 5 minutes.
- Fry the meat from all sides. Put on a baking sheet.
- Put vegetables on the fried steaks, pour everything with ketchup, sugar and vinegar sauce, add the remaining 50 ml of soy sauce and keep in the oven at 180-200 ° for 10-15 minutes.
How to cook in Chinese
Cooking pork in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese is as simple as the previous dishes.
To do this, you will need:
- pork pulp without veins and bones - 0.4 kg;
- canned pineapples in a jar - 1 jar;
- 1 chicken egg;
- soy sauce - 100 ml;
- sweet pepper - 1 pc.;
- corn starch - 1 tbsp. l .;
- tomato paste - 50 g;
- vinegar (9%, can be apple) - 2 tsp;
- salt - to taste;
- a little sugar;
- greenery.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Diced pork for half an hour put in the marinade. To do this, mix soy sauce with beaten egg.
- At this time, cut the pepper into cubes.
- Make a sauce by mixing pineapple syrup, pasta, vinegar, salt and sugar.
- Fry the meat, rolled in starch, until crusted.
- Pour the cooked sauce into pork, put pepper and pineapple slices. Leave to simmer for 15-20 minutes over low heat.
Not complicated recipes for pork with sweet and sour sauce will help to diversify the diet and please the household with a Chinese-style dinner.
