Sweet and sour pork. Cubed pork and stir-fried vegetables are coated in a mouthwatering sweet and sour sauce prepared with simple ingredients. Mix in the egg white and green onions. Sweet and sour pork is arguably one of the most popular Chinese dishes in the United States, but as with most classic dishes, it's difficult to find a go-to recipe.

Called "咕嚕肉" or "goo lou yok" in Cantonese dialect, this recipe is very pleasing to the palate because of the flavorsome sweet and sour sauce—the sweetness from sugar plus the tangy ketchup and sharp rice. Sweet and sour pork 咕噜肉/咕老肉 is the traditional Chinese cuisine with a universal appeal. It is easy to prepare, kids friendly, which is perfect for any busy home cooks. You can cook Sweet and sour pork using 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Sweet and sour pork

1. It’s of Sauce.
2. You need 250 g of pork or chicken, diced.
3. It’s 25 g of butter.
4. It’s 1 of large onion.
5. You need 500 g of tinned pineapple pieces (1 big tin or 2 smaller ones).
6. Prepare 1 tbsp of brown sugar.
7. You need 1 tsp of cornflour.
8. It’s 1 of juice (orange, tropical etc).
9. You need of Egg fried rice.
10. You need of Cooked rice.
11. Prepare 1 of medium onion.
12. You need 2 rashers of bacon.
13. You need 2 of eggs.
14. Prepare 2 tbsp of oil.
15. Prepare 1 tsp of soy sauce.
16. It’s of Peas (optional).

The pork pieces are doused in a thick, spoon-coating sauce with a constant pull between sweet and sour. Sweet and Sour Pork is a Cantonese dish (咕嚕肉 or gū lō yuk) where tender pieces of pork are deep fried until crispy and then stir fried with vegetables and pineapple in a sweet and sour sauce. In a bowl, combine all marinade ingredients with the pork. Place the corn flour in a large bowl and toss the marinated pork chunks until liberally coated.

Sweet and sour pork step by step

1. Drain juice from pineapple and top up with juice until you have 300ml of liquid, add 200ml of water.
2. Put sugar and cornflour in bowl, add a little of the juice mixture and mix. This will make a wet paste with hopefully no lumps. When done add the rest of the juice and mix again.
3. Chop onion and fry slowly with butter..
4. Cut meat into small pieces and add to onions. Seal the meat. Once done, add the juice mixture and season.
5. Bring to the boil then add pineapple..
6. Simmer at least 3/4 hour or 1 1/2 hours in oven, medium heat..
7. When you have 15min left on the sauce, cook rice.
8. If you are adding peas then cook them now.
9. While the rice is cooking, finely chop the onions and fry with the oil in frying pan.
10. Cut bacon into 2cm pieces and fry with onions.
11. Add cooked rice (and peas) to bacon and onion and mix..
12. Make hole in middle and pour in two beaten eggs. Gradually scramble and mix with rice.
13. Add salt, pepper and soy sauce..
14. Serve the rice and sauce together..

I started by preparing the pork. These were sliced into serving pieces and marinated in soy sauce. I also dredged it in flour or cornstarch and deep-fried Making sweet and sour sauce is easier than you think. It is composed of sugar, vinegar, and ketchup. The sauce provides flavor to the entire dish.