Sweet and Sour Pork Fillet Recipe, How to Cook Fried Pork Fillet with Sweet and Sour Sauce

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Sweet and Sour Pork Fillet

Chinese name: 糖醋里脊 (táng cù lǐ ji)
Style: Zhejiang Cuisine
Characteristics: sweet and sour pork fillet is reddish in color, sweet and just a little sour, crisp on the outside and tender on the inside.

One of the well-known dishes in the Zhejiang Cuisine, sweet and sour pork fillet is popular among all the people regardless of age or gender. Everyone loves its special taste of sweet mixed with sour, its freshness, its crisp outside and its tender inside. Its raw materials are simple and making it is not difficult, either. However, you need a few tips to cook it well. First, the key to a crisp outside and a tender inside is that the lean pork strips must be fried twice. Second, the proportion of salt to white sugar is critical. It must be perfected over time according to one’s personal taste. Third, when stir-frying the cutlet in the sauce mix, the movement must be quick.

Ingredient:

Lean pork, 300 g

Preparation:

Clean the lean pork with water. Then cut it into thin slices and put them onto a plate. Lastly, add in salt, cooking wine, egg white, oil and starch, and stir well in the same direction with chopsticks until it feels a bit sticky.

Seasonings:
salt
white sugar
white vinegar
tomato ketchup
cooking wine
wet cornstarch
green onion
garlic
ginger
Note: the amount of the seasonings listed above can be appropriately used according to one's personal taste. Meanwhile, to make a plate of delicious sweet and sour pork fillet, the preparation of the sauce is very important. Take some tomato ketchup out of the tomato ketchup bottle and put it into a small bowl. Add in some salt, white sugar and white vinegar, and stir well with a teaspoon until the ingredients are mixed together.
Meanwhile, prepare the wet cornstarch for the thickening later.

Methods:

Step 1: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add some cooking oil, and add in the processed lean pork strips one by one with chopsticks. Turn off the fire and remove them when they look yellowish-white and put them in a colander quickly. Add the fried lean pork strips back in to be fired again when the temperature of the oil in the wok is heated back up to 70 centigrade (158 Fahrenheit). The lean pork strips are fried well until they turn golden. Then, remove them from the wok.

Step 2: Leave some cooking oil in the wok, swirling to coat the sides. Add in the chopped garlic and ginger and stir-fry over high heat for about 20 seconds. Then, add in the tomato ketchup mixture and the wet cornstarch and stir-fry for 10 seconds. And in the chopped green onion lastly and stir-fry them together until they smell fragrant, about 20 seconds.

Step 3: Add in the fried lean pork and stir-fry for about 2-3 minutes over high heat until the seasoning sauce coats the outside skin of the fried loin pork strips.

Stir-frying the Fried Pork Fillet Straps

Step 4: Now, turn off the fire, find a fine porcelain plate, and pick the delicious sweet and sour pork fillet out of the wok.

Finally, a plate of delicious sweet and sour pork fillet is complete, waiting for you to enjoy it.

On Sep. 15, 2011, Ms. Tina Joanne Geidel & Ms. Heather Helene Hayes had a Chinese food cooking class in the kitchen of a local family when they took our private China family tour in Xian. They learnt to cook Sweet and Sour Pork Fillet from the hostess. They said it was a vacation they would remember for their lifetime.

Ms. Tina Joanne Geidel & Ms. Heather Helene Hayes Dining with the Hostess
On July 16, 2010, Mr. Johnathan Paul Munko paid a personal visit to a typical family in Xian arranged by Travelchinagide and learned to cook Sweet and Sour Pork Fillet and Chinese Dumplings in the home of the family. He had much fun during the cooking and gave high praise to the special experience after the tour.

Our Guests in a Local Family

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Sweet and Sour
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Fried Pork with
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Cola
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Fish-Flavored
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