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Sweet and Sour Chicken, Pork or Shrimp Cantonese-Style

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"The biggest compliment I can pay this recipe is that it's the closest I've ever found to my local take-away sweet & sour! Absolutely brilliant. For info I tweaked it a bit... 1 carrot instead of 2, increased the measures for the sauce by 50% so that there was extra and only deep fried the chicken for about 3 mins, and then dabbed it with a napkin before baking in the oven for about 15 mins to crispen it up, before throwing it all in with the sauce and veggies. Flavours are spot-on. Thank you!" - micklee30

Yield: 1 Ready in 1 hours

Cuisine: ChineseMain Ingredient: Shrimp

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Servings          
Original recipe makes 1
4 tbVinegar
4 tbSugar
5 tbCold water
1 tbCold water
B
3 tsCornstarch
1 Green pepper
1 tsSalt
1 lbBoneless chicken breast
1 tbCorn starch*
2 Onions
1 Egg yolk
1/2 tsSalt
2 Carrots
5 tbPineapple juice
1 lbPork (butt); (butt or loin)
D
1/2 ccorn starch; Or more
1/2 tsSoy sauce
4 cVegetable oil
1 tsToasted sesame oil
C
A
1 lbshrimp; Shelled
4 tbCatsup
1 cnChunk pineapple; or fresh

Sweet and Sour Chicken, Pork or Shrimp Cantonese-Style Preparation

Pound pork or chicken with back of clever to tenderize, then cup it into 1" cubes. Mix it with A and marinate at least 30 minute, or overnight. Cut peppers (remove seeds and membranes) into 1" squares. Peel carrot and slice diagonally into 1/8" thick slices. Peel onion and cut into 1" squares. Drain pineapple. Set each aside separately. Mix C together in a bowl and set aside. Heat 4 to 6 cups of oil to deep frying temperature in a deep skillet or wok. While oil is heating, individually coat each piece of meat, removing excess marinade, with the 1/2 cup corn starch. When oil is hot, add meat and cook until golden brown, about 4 minutes. Remove meat from skillet and drain well. Put 2 Tbsp. of oil in a clean wok and heat it up good and hot. A carrot and cook 1 minute, then add onions for 2 minutes, green peppers for 1 minute and pineapple for 1 minute -- 5 minutes total. Pour in C and cook until thickened. Turn off heat. Add meat and stir well. Serve immediately. NOTES: Special Shrimp marinade -- 1 tsp. salt, 1 tsp. Chinese cooking wine, 2 egg white, 4 tsp. corn starch * You can substitute arrowroot for corn starch for a more authentic dish. Reduce amounts use in recipe by half. I sometimes make a special variation of this by combining two or three of the meats into Sweet and Sour Three Delights. Recipe by: Stuarts Chinese Recipes Page Posted to recipelu-digest Volume 01 Number 234 by James and Susan Kirkland on Nov 09, 1997

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The biggest compliment I can pay this recipe is that it's the closest I've ever found to my local take-away sweet & sour! Absolutely brilliant. For info I tweaked it a bit... 1 carrot instead of 2, increased the measures for the sauce by 50% so that there was extra and only deep fried the chicken for about 3 mins, and then dabbed it with a napkin before baking in the oven for about 15 mins to crispen it up, before throwing it all in with the sauce and veggies. Flavours are spot-on. Thank you!
1 years, 3 months, 3 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes ago
Turned out fantastic! I doubled the sauce because my partner loves extra sauce.
1 years, 8 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 23 hours, 40 minutes ago
I Would like to no the recipes of butter Chicken, sweet & sour chicken
4 years, 1 months, 3 weeks, 21 hours, 29 minutes ago

Tags

  1. Chinese
  2. Poultry
  3. Seafood
  4. Pork
  5. Corn starch
  6. Corn
  7. Chicken
  8. Apple
  9. Sesame
  10. Carrot
  11. Onion
  12. Shrimp
  13. Soy Sauce

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