Sweet n Sour Pork

This is one of the favourite dish of my DH that i had never cooked before. Because i had never like this dish as i find the flour content is so high, almost like 70:30 of flour and meat, it like eating fried batter. But since he like it so much, so i thought i should just give this dish a try.

After i cooked this dish, my view towards sweet n sour pork have changed. It's very very good! I love this dish! To be honest, i had never ever eaten such nice sweet and sour pork in my life. Because those that i have eaten was either too much batter, or the meat too dry, or the sauce not nice, etc... so eversince, i never eat it again. But this one is so nice that i want to cook it and eat it again. However, the batter needs to be improved, as it turned soggy very quickly. I like something that can remain it's crispiness longer.

Sweet n Sour Pork

Ingredients
- 300g Pork tenderloin, cut into bite size
- 1 whole green pepper
- 1 whole red pepper
- 1/4 of pineapple
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 clove of shallot

Marinate - A
- 1 tsp soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp corn flour
- 1/2 tsp rice wine

Frying Batter - B
- 1/2 cup water
- 60g All purpose flour
- 30g Corn flour
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 egg
- 1 tsp cooking oil
- Pinch of salt

Sweet and Sour sauce - C
- 3 tbs ketchup
- 2 tsp plum paste
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tsp oyster sauce
- 1.5 tsp corn flour
- 2 tsp sugar
- 4 tbs water

Method
1) Marinate the meat using A for 20-30min
2) Prepare B and C
3) Dip pork into the batter and deep fry over medium heat until golden brown. Set aside.
4) Fry garlic and shallot until slightly aromatic, than add in green and red pepper. Fry the peppers for about one minute than add in the sweet n sour sauce mixture.
5) As the sauce thicken, add in pineapple and pork. Stir till all evenly coated than serve.

** recipe adapted from Rasa Malaysia, but i have double the sauce amount as the original recipe's sauce was too little. I have also modified some of the steps and ingredients amount. But really thanks to Rasa Malaysia for such a great recipe! Other than the batter needs to be improved, this recipe is definitely a keeper!!

Home cooked Sweet n Sour pork is definitely much better than those selling outside, because we can control the amount of batter and also the quality of the meat. What i like about this dish is that, not only the sauce is nice, but the meat is very tender and juicy. The thought of it makes me crave for it again. It's really very good!