Peking Pork With Sweet And Sour Sauce Recipes

PEKING PORK CHOPS

Steps:

• Pound pork slices with mallet, or with the back of a kitchen knife until tender. Set aside. In a bowl, mix the Marinade ingredients, add in pork slices, mix well, and marinade for 30 minutes.
• In a separate bowl, mix the Sauce ingredients. You may add more or less sugar, or other sauce ingredients to your own liking. Set sauce mixture aside.
• Heat up a wok with enough oil, deep-fry pork slices for 5 minutes, or until color changes to golden brown and slightly crispy. Dish up, drain with paper towels and set aside.
• Bring sauce to a quick boil, add deep-fried pork, and stir until all the meat is well coated with sauce. Dish up and sprinkle the pork chops with some toasted sesame seeds. Serve over a bowl of hot steamed rice.

PORK WITH PEKING SAUCE

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• Shred the pork by cutting it into thin slices, then stacking them up one on top of the other, and cutting across into shreds.
• In a medium-sized bowl, combine the pork shreds with the rice wine or sherry, dark soy sauce, salt, and cornstarch, adding the cornstarch last. Marinate the pork for 20 minutes.
• While the pork is marinating, shred the cabbage or lettuce. Arrange the shredded cabbage on a plate.
• Heat the wok over medium-high to high heat. Add 2 tablespoons of oil. When the oil is hot , add the pork shreds and stir-fry until they change color and are nearly cooked. Remove from the wok.
• Add 1 tablespoon oil. When the oil is hot, add the ginger and the sweet bean sauce (or hoisin or sweet bean paste/water mixture). Cook until aromatic.
• Add the pork back into the pan and mix with the sauce. Season with salt, soy sauce and/or freshly ground white pepper if desired.
• Arrange the pork shreds on the shredded vegetables and add garnishes, if desired. The flavor of green onions is especially good with this dish.

HOMEMADE SWEET-AND-SOUR PORK

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the brown sugar, vinegar, ketchup and soy sauce. Pour half into a large resealable plastic bag; add pork. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 30 minutes. Set remaining marinade aside., Drain and discard marinade from pork. In a large skillet, cook pork in oil for 3 minutes. Add the onion, carrots, green pepper, garlic and ginger; saute until pork is tender. Add reserved marinade. Bring to a boil; cook for 1 minute. Stir in the pineapple. Serve with rice if desired. Freeze option: Cool pork mixture. Freeze in freezer containers. To use, partially thaw in refrigerator overnight. Heat through slowly in a covered skillet, stirring occasionally and adding a little broth or water if necessary. Serve over rice.

PEKING PORK WITH SWEET-AND-SOUR SAUCE

Steps:

• In large, deep skillet, bring water to a boil with sugar and vinegar; whisk until sugar dissolves.
• In small bowl, mix soy sauce, ketchup, and sesame oil until smooth; whisk into vinegar mixture.
• Bring to boil, then reduce to simmer until syrupy.
• Mix flour and cornstarch together in medium size shallow dish; set aside.
• Season pork with salt and pepper.
• Dredge in sherry (or rice wine).
• Then dredge in flour mixture. (Dredging process may be repeated if thicker crust is desired).
• Heat oil in large pot to 350 degrees.
• Fry two pork pieces at a time about 1-2 minutes on each side; drain on paper towels.
• Repeat frying process on all pieces and drain again.
• Transfer meat to sauce and serve.

STIR-FRIED PORK AND SNOW PEAS WITH SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE

Steps:

• Make stir-fry sauce: combine ingredients in a bowl; set aside.
• Toss the pork with the soy sauce.
• Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a large nonstick skillet over high heat until just smoking.
• Add in pork and cook, stirring occasionally and breaking up clumps, until lightly browned, about 3 minutes; transfer pork to a clean bowl.
• Add 1 more tablespoon oil to the pan and return to high heat until shimmering.
• Add in onion and snow peas; cook/stir until softened, about 3 minutes.
• Add in pineapple and cook until warmed through.
• Clear center of pan and add remaining 1 teaspoon oil, garlic, and ginger; cook, mashing garlic mixture into pan with back of spatula, until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
• Stir in cooked pork; whisk sauce to recombine, add it to the pan, and bring to a simmer.
• Cook until sauce thickens, 1-2 minutes; serve immediately.

EASY SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE FOR CHICKEN OR PORK

Steps:

• Mix the vinegar, brown sugar, ketchup, and soy sauce together and bring to a boil in a small pot. Mix together the cornstarch and water, add to the other ingredients and stir to thicken.
• For a thicker sauce, increase the cornstarch to 5 teaspoons.

MOM'S EGG ROLLS WITH SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE

Steps:

• To make sweet and sour sauce, in 1-quart saucepan, mix sugar, ketchup, 2/3 cup water, 1 tablespoon soy sauce and the salt. Cook 5 minutes. Stir in vinegar.
• In small bowl, mix cornstarch and 1/3 cup cold water. Add to sauce; cook until thickened.
• To make egg rolls, in 12-inch skillet, cook ground beef, onion and green onions until beef is thoroughly cooked. Drain off excess fat.
• Stir in coleslaw mix. Add soy sauce by pouring around top of mixture about 2 times. Taste and check saltiness; you can always add more. Cook until thoroughly heated.
• While cabbage mixture is cooking, place egg roll skins on large work surface. Spoon 1 serving spoon-size of beef mixture on center of each skin. For each egg roll, bring up bottom corner; fold in side corners and roll up. Bring down top corner; wet with small amount of water to stick.
• In small skillet, heat oil. When oil is hot, fry egg rolls until crispy. Shake off excess oil.