Chinese Sweet & Sour Pork

Ingredients

• 1½ lb pork, diced 1/2-inch thick
• 2 batter large eggs
• 4 tsp batter flour
• 1 tsp batter salt
• batter; a dash pepper
• ¾ cup shortening
• 1 tsp for browning salt
• 3 large green peppers, sliced in 1/4-inch strips
• 1 medium onion, sliced
• 1 cup chicken broth
• 4 slice pineapple
• 2½ tsp cornstarch
• 2 tsp soy sauce
• ⅓ cup vinegar
• ½ cup sugar
• 2 tbsp grated ginger

Method

1. Make the batter: beat the eggs, add the flour, salt and pepper. Pour the batter over the cubed pork, separating with a fork so that each piece of pork is covered with batter.
2. Heat 3/4 cup shortening in a heavy skillet, add 1 teaspoon salt, drop the cubes of pork into the skillet, brown, and put aside until needed. Leave 1 teaspoon oil in the skillet.
3. In the skillet add 1/3 cup of the chicken broth. Cut each pineapple slice into 6 pieces, add to the broth with the green peppers and onion. Cook 5 minutes, then add the pork. Cover the pan tightly and cook for 10 minutes on very low heat.
4. Blend the cornstarch, soy sauce, vinegar, sugar and 1 teaspoon salt with the rest of the chicken broth; add to the pork mixture, stirring constantly until the juice thickens and the mixture is very hot.
5. Serve immediately with hot boiled rice.

Notes

From M. Myers.

Original card

The recipe above was transcribed from this scan of Vera’s original card.

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