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Shane Smith's sweet & sour pork: Today

Shane Smith's sweet & sour pork: Today
Shane Smith's sweet & sour pork: Today

Ingredients

Serves: 4
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes

Pork marinade

  • 400g diced pork
  • 1/2 medium onion, grated
  • 2 garlic cloves, grated
  • 1/2 tbsp ginger, grated
  • 1 tbsp cornflour
  • Salt & pepper
  • 2 tbsp soya sauce

For frying

  • Vegetable oil
  • 100g cornflour

Sweet & sour sauce

  • 70g caster sugar
  • 80ml apple cider vinegar
  • 3 tbsp pineapple juice
  • 3 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • 1 tbsp soya sauce
  • 4 tsp cornflour
  • 120ml water

Stir fried vegetables

  • 1 garlic clove, chopped
  • 1 medium onion, diced
  • 1 red pepper, diced
  • 1 yellow pepper, diced
  • 150g diced tinned pineapples

Method

  1. To marinade the pork, mix the diced pork and remaining marinade ingredients together. Cover and chill for a minimum of 2 hours.
  2. For the sweet and sour sauce, place all the ingredients into a bowl and whisk together until combined and set aside until needed.
  3. To cook the pork, heat your vegetable oil to 180C, toss the marinated pork in the cornflour and fry in the hot oil until crispy and golden.
  4. Cook the pork in batches as not to overcrowd and cool the oil too much.
  5. For the stir fried vegetables, add oil to the pan and when hot add the onions, garlic and peppers and cook over a high heat for 2-3 minutes.
  6. At this point, add the pineapples.
  7. Re-whisk the sweet & sour sauce and add to the pan.
  8. Cook over a medium/high heat for another minute until the sauce heats up and thickens.
  9. Add the crispy pork pieces to the pan, stir to coat and serve right away with a side of hot rice. Enjoy.