Sweet & Sour Pork with Lychee
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January 15, 2022
1 hr
easy
6 - 8 pax
This Lychee Sweet & Sour Pork recipe guarantees your meal to be 甜甜蜜蜜! Using a mix of tomato ketchup, plum sauce and oyster sauce, this recipe makes for a balanced sweet-savoury sauce that coats each pork cube generously.
We’re using Lee Kum Kee sauces, as seen in the video, to get decadent and delicate flavours.
PS, also a great way to use up the canned lychees lying in your cupboard, CNY kitchen spring cleaning.
More auspicious CNY dishes:
Braised Abalone with Broccoli and Prawns
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Ingredients
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| 500g Pork shoulder (cut into bite sizes) | |
| 300g Capsicums (weight) (cut into diagonal shape) (100g each) | |
| 2cans Lychees | |
| ½tsp Salt | |
| ½tsp Chicken powder | |
| 1Egg white | |
| 1tbsp Shaoxing wine | |
| ½tbsp Cornstarch | |
| 150g Potato starch |
Sauce Mixture:
| 5tbsp Lee Kum Kee Tomato Ketchup | |
| 2tbsp Lee Kum Kee Plum Sauce | |
| 1tbsp Lee Kum Kee Premium Oyster sauce | |
| 2tbsp Vinegar | |
| 2tsp Sugar | |
| 2tbsp Shaoxing wine | |
| 2tbsp Water | |
| 2tbsp Cornstarch slurry (1 tbsp of cornstarch to 200ml water) |
Directions
1.
Tenderize pork with the back of the knife or with a meat pricker. Marinate pork with salt, chicken powder, egg, shaoxing wine & cornstarch. Let it sit aside for ½ hour.
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2.
In a mixing bowl, mix all ingredients under sauce mixture except for the cornstarch slurry, mix well and set aside.
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3.
Coat each pork piece with potato starch and set aside.
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4.
Heat oil and deep fry pork pieces until light golden brown. Fish all pork pieces out, bring the heat up and give it a 2nd fry until golden brown and crispy. Drain and set aside.
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5.
In a wok, pour in sauce mixture and give it a quick stir until it boils, add in capsicums and lychees, quick stir fry. Stir in corn starch slurry to thicken sauce.
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6.
Add in fried pork pieces and coat well.
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