Pork with pineapples in sweet and sour sauce

Pork with pineapples in sweet and sour sauce

Friday, August 5, 2016

The combination of meat and fruit may seem unusual and even incomparable at first glance, but it is not so. If you once tried, for example, chicken with peaches or oranges and liked it, then your menu will probably include new dishes of this kind. Now I propose to prepare one of my children’s most favorite main dishes - pork with pineapple in sweet and sour sauce. It's very tasty, believe me!

Tender pieces of pork fillet and crispy slices of juicy pineapple are perfectly mixed with a thick and slightly special sweet and sour sauce. This dish is best served with boiled rice, but I personally like it best as a stand-alone dish (optional - just chopped green onions).

Ingredients:

Making a dish step by step:

The recipe for this ordinary, but very tasty second course includes pork (lean pulp without bones and fat - I always take loin fillet), a can of canned pineapples (565 ml), soy and tomato sauce, corn (or potato) starch, also refined vegetable (I use sunflower) oil for frying meat.

First you need to cut the pork flesh into small pieces - so that it is comfortable to take with chopsticks or a fork. Sprinkle cornstarch directly onto the meat.

Dredge the meat pieces until the starch covers them one hundred percent.

In a large frying pan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the breaded pieces of meat in it over high heat. It is very important here that the meat is thoroughly dried from water, otherwise it will shoot in hot oil. In addition, be sure to fry the pork over high heat so that the slices quickly become golden brown - this way they will retain one hundred percent of the meat juice. And one more thing: fry the pork not all at once, but in parts, so that the pieces do not touch each other - then they will not stick together and release the juice.

In this way, fry all the meat until golden brown, after which we remove it from the pan and transfer it to a plate.

Wash the pan from oil, pour pineapple juice, soy sauce into it and add tomato sauce. If there is no sauce, you can use ketchup or, ultimately, good-quality tomato paste.

Heat the contents of the pan over medium heat, stirring, until boiling. Boil for several minutes, after which we put the fried pieces of meat into the sauce.

Simmer covered over low heat for about 10 minutes.

Then add pieces of canned pineapple and mix everything thoroughly. Cook covered over low heat for about 5 minutes.

During this period of time, the pineapple slices will soften slightly and become saturated with the sauce, which has already thickened due to the presence of starch.

Serve pork with pineapples in sweet and sour sauce, fried with boiled rice, or as a separate dish.

Tender pieces of pork fillet, still crisp slices of juicy pineapple are perfectly mixed with a thick and slightly special sweet and sour sauce. Try sprinkling some green onion on top - it will be very tasty, I promise!

Pork with pineapples in sweet and sour sauce

Asian cuisine is known throughout the world not only for its highly refined dishes, the tasting of which brings tears to the eyes of untrained Europeans, but also for the delicious habit of combining any type of meat with various sweet sauces and fresh or canned fruits. It would seem that there is a significant contradiction between the meat product, designed to satiate and relieve hunger, and the sweet ingredients, most suitable for a sweet dessert, but this particular magical composition can act like a drug and attract more and more new adherents of oriental cuisine.

Pork with pineapple in sweet and sour sauce is one of the most common, but at the same time delicious dishes of oriental cuisine, the ingredients for which can be found in virtually any home and this authentic recipe can be easily reproduced in our Russian conditions. It is prepared simply and quickly enough, which will allow you to pleasantly vary the diet of your family, and also amaze your guests with a delicious and unusual overseas dish. In this recipe, succulent pork meat is stewed along with fried pineapple in a thick and rich tomato sauce with added sugar and lemon juice. The result is very juicy, appetizing and fragrant pieces of meat, which are enveloped in a special sweet and sour sauce and have a tender and melting thickness, and fried pineapples add an unusually exciting note to this dish and serve as a typical exotic side dish for meat. Try to cook pork with pineapple according to this usual recipe, and you will probably appreciate this dish, and maybe even fall in love with its unusual, but so attractive sweet and sour taste!

Necessary information

How to cook pork with pineapple in a frying pan - a recipe for pork in sweet and sour sauce with step-by-step photos

INGREDIENTS:

• 600 - 700 g pork
• 300 g canned pineapples
• 100 ml soy sauce
• 3 tbsp. l. tomato paste
• 4 tbsp. l. Sahara
• 1 tbsp. l. flour
• 1 tbsp. l. potato starch
• 1/2 lemon
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil
• hot pepper, ground ginger

COOKING METHOD:

1. In order to cook pork with pineapples in sweet and sour sauce, thoroughly wash the meat under running water and cut into small pieces.

2. Place the meat in a bowl, pour in soy sauce and sprinkle with starch and flour.
3. Mix everything thoroughly and let stand at room temperature for 10 minutes.
4. Cut canned pineapples into small slices.

5. Heat the vegetable oil in a large frying pan and fry the pineapples over medium heat for 6 - 8 minutes until lightly browned and a powerful, pleasant smell emerges.
Then place the fried pineapples on a plate using a slotted spoon. 6. In the same frying pan, without adding oil, place the pork in one layer and fry it on all sides over high heat for 5 - 7 minutes until an appetizing golden brown crust.

7. While the meat is frying, place tomato paste in a small bowl, then add sugar and lemon juice squeezed from half a medium fruit.
8. Mix all the ingredients thoroughly and you will end up with a sweet and sour sauce for stewing pork meat with pineapples.
9. Place pineapples and sweet and sour sauce in a frying pan with fried pork.
10. Mix everything thoroughly and simmer over low heat under the lid for 20 minutes. At the end of cooking, add dry spices to taste.

Since pork with pineapple in sweet and sour sauce is an oriental dish, it is usually served along with a pile of fluffy boiled rice, which is soaked in a surprisingly tasty gravy and becomes very juicy, special and rich. But tender pieces of meat in sauce mix well with any other side dish, for example, buckwheat, pasta or potatoes, which are usually beloved in our country. Bon appetit!

Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples

What do any Chinese restaurants and Chinese fast food stalls have? Naturally, this is pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples.

Ingredients for “Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples”:

• Pork – 500 g
• Soy sauce - 100 ml
• Pineapple – 300 g
• Wheat flour / Flour - 1 tbsp. l.
• Starch - 1 tbsp. l.
• Tomato paste (or ketchup) - 4 tbsp. l.
• Vinegar - 2 tsp.
• Sugar - 40 g
• Greenery
• Vegetable oil (for frying)
• Salt (to taste)
• Dark pepper (to taste)

Production time: 30 minutes

Number of servings: 3

Nutritional and energy value:

Recipe for “Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples”:

1. Cut the pork into small pieces, approximately 2 x 2 cm. Pour soy sauce over the chopped meat, add starch and flour. Stir and leave to marinate for 5-7 minutes.

2. While the meat is marinating, fry the pineapples in vegetable oil. We take out the pineapples, fry the meat in the same oil on both sides until a crust forms, so that the pieces do not stick together.

3. Mix tomato paste, sugar and vinegar. Pour the resulting mixture into a frying pan with meat, add fried pineapples, mix and simmer for 15-20 minutes. If there is not enough water, you can add pineapple syrup.

4. Place on a plate, sprinkle with herbs, take out the chopsticks and you’re done.

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Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples “Chinese style”

Now we are rehearsing for the New Year - Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples.

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 250 g pork fillet
• 250 g canned pineapple
• 125 g flour
• 1 tbsp. starch
• 1 carrot
• 0.5 cup grows. oils
• 1 onion
• 1.5 tbsp. baking powder
• 1 greenish bell pepper

For the sauce:

• 125 ml white wine vinegar
• 5 tbsp. coffee sugar
• 2 cloves garlic
• 4 tbsp. tomato paste
• 5 tbsp. pineapple juice
• 2 tbsp. starch

You will need a wok pan. If there is no such thing, don’t be upset and take any thick-walled one, preferably with a not very wide bottom.

Manufacturing:

1. Mix flour, starch and baking powder in a bowl. Add 1 tbsp. water and vegetable oil. Mix everything well. You should get a thick dough. Wash the meat, dry it, cut into cubes 2 by 2 cm.
2. Wash the pepper, remove the core and seeds and cut into squares.
3. Peel and wash carrots, garlic and onions. Chop the onions and carrots finely, crush the garlic.
4. We take the pineapple out of the jar and also cut it into pieces (or it’s better to buy it cut into pieces right away. Put the wok on the fire. Pour the remaining oil into it and heat it up very much. Dip any piece of pork alternately into the dough, then carefully place it in the bubbling oil and fry for 4-5 minutes .
5. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a paper towel to drain excess fat. Drain the oil from the wok, leaving only about 1 tbsp. Place the frying pan on the heat again.
6. Add carrots, onions, green peppers and pineapple pieces. Fry everything, stirring, for 1-2 minutes.
7. Then we also remove it with a slotted spoon and set it aside. Making sweet and sour sauce. Combine tomato paste, vinegar, pineapple juice, starch, garlic and brown sugar in a wok. Stirring, bring to a boil and cook for 1 minute. Add fried pieces of pork and vegetables. Warm everything up for 1-2 minutes. That's all. Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples can be served.

Once in my life I had dinner at a Chinese restaurant. This comfortable and exotic establishment was located in the very center of Warsaw (I hope it is still alive today). In the 90s, Poland seemed like a gastronomic paradise for us Soviets.

When we were taken to a large grocery hypermarket (in our homeland at that time the shelves were empty, and there were no hypermarkets in our town at all), we frantically filled huge carts with goodies and later had feasts in the hotel. And so, on one of our visits, our Polish colleagues invited us to have dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

The menu, naturally, was not in Russian. What to choose? A Pole sitting next to him came to the rescue: “This is very tasty pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples.” I'm not a big fan of meat at all, but there was no room for whims here.

The waiter stood behind him and several pairs of hungry eyes were waiting for their turn. I chose pork. And I didn’t regret it. It seems that I have never eaten such deliciousness in my life. Or maybe I was just hungry. No, it was literally delicious! The meat simply melted in my mouth.

The Chinese are great! They do everything to an unrivaled standard, not just the equipment and dishes. Memoirs of a long dinner warm my soul to this day. So why not repeat this recipe for the New Year... Although my version differs most quickly from the Polish one, I hope it will be no less tasty.