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Gu Lou Yuk (Cantonese Sweet & Sour Pork)

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One meal for 2 adults + 2 kids; eat fresh. Sauce made in the bowl; pork double-fried in a wok. Honey and pineapple replace white sugar; no ketchup.
Kids: Kid portion is half; same full-flavour dish.
Ingredients
- 600 g (about 3¾ cups pieces) pork shoulder or belly, 2.5 cm cubes
- 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- 1 tbsp light soy
- 1 egg yolk
- 100 g (about ⅔ cup) potato starch
- neutral oil for frying (~1 L)
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 red + 1 green capsicum, 1 onion, 3 cm pieces
- 200 g (about 1¼ cups) fresh pineapple, chunks
- 3 tbsp tomato paste
- 3 tbsp rice vinegar or apple cider vinegar
- 3 tbsp honey
- 2 tsp cornflour + ½ cup (125 ml) water
- jasmine rice
Steps
- Marinate pork with Shaoxing, soy, yolk 15 min. Toss in potato starch.
- Deep-fry in a wok at 170°C 4 min, rest, then again at 190°C 1 min until shatter-crisp.
- Put 3 garlic in the bowl. Chop. Add 3 tbsp tomato paste, vinegar, honey, cornflour water, ½ tsp salt. 3 sec/speed 7
- Cook the sauce. 4 min/100°C/speed 2
- In the hot wok, toss capsicum, onion and pineapple 1 min, pour sauce in, add pork, toss to coat. Serve at once with rice.
- Portion & store: makes ~3 adult portions (~200 g pork + rice); a kid portion is half. Eat straight away. Fridge Eat fresh; freezer Not suitable.
Dark settings like 5 min/100°C/speed 1 are Thermomix TM7 time/temperature/speed. Unfamiliar word? See the glossary.