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Easy Sweet and Sour Pork
#9703653 - 01/30/09 01:06 AM (15 years, 1 day ago) |
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This is the easiest, cheapest recipe I know.
Ingredients:
2Lb of you favorite, thick pork cut 2-3 carrots 1 onion 1 bell pepper 1 can pineapple, drained 2 tbs corn starch 2 tbs soy sauce 4-5 tbs oil 2 cups of your favorite sweet and sour sauce ~1/4~ cup water
Cut pork up into chunks mix corn starch and soy sauce add starch/soy mix to pork and coat well
cut veggies up
brown pork in hot oil add water, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 15-20 min add veggies and sweet and sour sauce simmer 10-15 min
serve over fried rice
serves ~6
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Edited by niteowl (01/30/09 12:22 PM)
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: niteowl]
#9703696 - 01/30/09 01:18 AM (15 years, 1 day ago) |
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Sounds good I think I may try this. =D
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: niteowl]
#9703828 - 01/30/09 01:49 AM (15 years, 1 day ago) |
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Does it matter what kind of pork?? I mean cuts at least?
Pork tenderloin? I figure a nice fresh tenderloin...I might use a couple of deer backstraps in place of it.
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You can use your favorite cut of meat, red meat, seafood chicken.....
imagination is key
check out my spaghetti sauce on the front page
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: niteowl]
#9727829 - 02/03/09 10:16 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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I like my sweet and sour pork (fish, etc) to have a crispy crunch to it beneath the thick coating of sauce. It seems to me that simmering the pork in water for 15-20 minutes and then again with the addition of the veggies, would cause it to lose any crispy texture that may have been attained from the browning in step 1 of the cooking process?
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: niteowl]
#9727864 - 02/03/09 10:25 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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Quote:
niteowl said: You can use your favorite cut of meat, red meat, seafood chicken.....
imagination is key
check out my spaghetti sauce on the front page
It sure is. Best way to make dishes imo! Take what you have and improvise.
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: geokills]
#9727928 - 02/03/09 10:47 AM (14 years, 11 months ago) |
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geokills said: I like my sweet and sour pork (fish, etc) to have a crispy crunch to it beneath the thick coating of sauce. It seems to me that simmering the pork in water for 15-20 minutes and then again with the addition of the veggies, would cause it to lose any crispy texture that may have been attained from the browning in step 1 of the cooking process?
Again this could be easily adjusted, to suit your own taste.
Recipes are just guidelines IMO.
I hardly ever follow recipies (even my own) to the tee.
Variety is the spice of life.
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: niteowl]
#10432163 - 05/31/09 08:57 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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I've been dying to have a decent plate of sweet and sour chicken (but pork works too) for literally years now. There's no such thing as decent chinese food locally over here .
I think I'm going to give this a shot, sounds good.
How would I increase the crispiness of the pork? Should I steam the vegetables for longer (5minutes before hand) then throw in the pork or what? I've been 'cooking' since I was 5 but have really just done everything touch and go so I don't quite get this concept yet.
Thanks for the recipe!
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: CowFarmer]
#10432333 - 05/31/09 09:25 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Yea, you can steam the veggies before if you wanna, I guess 
You could also skip the add water, reduce heat, cover and simmer for 15-20 min step, and just add a little less water. Actually, you could just rinse the sweet and sour sauce jars out, and use that water.

Make sure your oil is good and hot before you put the pork in or the coating will wash off. I had that happen the last time I made this, made a mess in my pan too
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Re: Easy Sweet and Sour Pork [Re: niteowl]
#10470337 - 06/08/09 11:24 AM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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aww man i was thinking you were gona give a sweet and sour recipe
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