Meat in sweet and sour sauce is a very interesting and incredibly aromatic dish that can be tasted not only in Chinese restaurants. It is easy and simple to cook at home, you just need to stock up on the necessary ingredients.
Meat in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese - the general principles of cooking
• Meat. It is not subjected to lengthy processing, but sometimes marinated. In the original recipes used pork medium fat. You can substitute veal, chicken, they are also perfectly combined with sweet and sour sauce.
• Vegetables. Most often in the recipes found onions, garlic, carrots, peppers. But zucchini and eggplants can be added, tomatoes are often replaced with tomato paste or ketchup. Vegetables are usually cut into strips, fried with meat or separately.
• Ingredients sauce. There are many, depending on the recipes. The most common is soy sauce, honey or sugar, lemon juice or vinegar, ginger and hot pepper. You can add any seasoning to sauces at your discretion.
• Additional ingredients. Meat is usually cooked in a pan, so you need butter. It is better to take a vegetable product, as soy sauce can burn. For registration of meat in Chinese need white sesame, the addition of fresh herbs is welcome.
Sweet and Sour Chinese Meat with Sesame (Pork)
The simplest recipe for meat in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese. The dish is cooked very simply, pork tenderloin is used here.
Ingredients
• 400 g pork pulp;
• 30 grams of lemon juice;
• large onion;
• 30 ml of oil;
• three cloves of garlic;
• 30 ml of soy sauce;
• 1 tsp. crushed ginger;
• 15 g of honey;
• 10 g sesame;
• 15 g tomato. pasta.
Cooking
1. We cut the washed pork pulp into pieces, as for goulash or straws, but not very finely.
2. Add a spoonful of soy sauce and 50 ml of water to the pork, stir, leave to pickle. 3. Cut the garlic cloves in half, throw in the butter, fry.
4. Take out the garlic, spread the marinated pork in parts so that the pieces do not touch each other, fry them in batches until golden brown. Put it in a bowl.
5. In the same butter, add chopped onion half rings. Fry until almost ready.
6. Return the pork back.
7. Mix the remaining sauce with honey, add tomato paste to them. Citrus juice, season with ginger and pour 150 ml of water. Well dissolve the components of the fill.
8. Send the sauce to the meat pan with onions, cover, cook on low heat for about five minutes.
9. Take out the meat on a plate, fall asleep with sesame seeds. You can pre-fry them slightly, but separately and in a dry frying pan will be even more tasty.
Sweet-and-Sour Chinese Meat with Vegetables
Option of vegetable meat in Chinese spicy sweet and sour sauce. Here mainly used Bulgarian pepper and carrot. The juicier the vegetables, the tastier the dish will turn out.
Ingredients
• 300 g of any meat;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 large pepper;
• 35 ml of soy sauce;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• spoon of honey;
• 10 g of ginger;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 20 ml balsam. vinegar;
• ripe tomato;
• 2 tablespoons of starch.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat, pour half of the soy sauce to it, put the starch and 70 ml of water. Well, all this stir, leave for a quarter of an hour. This will be enough for pickling.
2. Saturate the oil with garlic. To do this, simply pour it into the pan, add one clove, cut into several pieces. Fry.
3. Remove the garlic, lay the meat in a single layer, but not tight. Cook until golden brown, shift to bowl.
4. Carrot rubbed with large straws, you can use a knife for Korean salads. Lay in the pan after the meat. If necessary, add a little more oil.
5. After a minute, run the chopped pepper into the carrot. Fry until soft.
6. Return the meat to the pan, stir.
7. Cooking the sauce. Mix grated tomato (seeds, it is desirable to remove) with soy sauce, ginger and garlic cloves that remain, add honey and balsamic vinegar, pour 150 ml of water. 8. Send the sauce to the pan, cook Chinese meat with vegetables for another five minutes, just warm up well and ready! Greens are best added directly to the plates.
Sweet-and-Sour Meat in Chinese Style with Pineapples
For this dish you can take pork, but veal is also a good match, chicken is great with pineapples and sweet and sour sauce.
Ingredients
• 150 g onions;
• 0.7 kg of meat;
• 300 g canned pineapple;
• spoon of starch;
• a spoonful of flour;
• three spoons of tomato paste;
• 2/3 spoonful of vinegar;
• soy sauce;
• butter.
Cooking
1. Cut the meat or poultry into pieces. Combine starch and flour, sprinkle, stir, so that the dry mixture is distributed evenly.
2. Now add the soy sauce, the amount to taste. If it is not very salty, then you can pour up to 40 ml. Stir, leave to marinate.
3. Heat some oil. Canned pineapples must be removed from the marinade in advance so that all the glass is drained. Cut into slices, spread into butter, fry for two minutes.
4. Now you need to remove the pineapples, lay the meat. Cook until light crust and immediately add chopped finely onions. You can take it a little less, if confused so much. Cook to transparency, return the pineapples.
5. Cooking sauce. It is enough to mix tomato paste and marinade from pineapples, you need about 150-180 grams. Sugar is not necessary to put, stir and pour the products in the pan. If all of a sudden pasta is concentrated, then one spoon is enough.
6. Stew on low heat until sauce is reduced twice. You can turn it off.
Meat in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese (teriyaki)
Teriyaki is a wonderful sauce in which you can quickly and easily cook meat in Chinese. In this dish only 4 ingredients, which is its undoubted advantage.
Ingredients
• 400 g pork;
• 70 g teriyaki;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• butter.
Cooking
• Cut the meat or chicken, successfully according to this recipe is breast. We make small plates, slightly repel on both sides. • Put the meat in hot oil, fry until golden brown almost to full readiness.
• Next put garlic cloves, cut in half. As soon as they are fried, throw away.
• Once the pieces are inverted, you can proceed to the sauce. Dilute teriyaki with half a glass of water. It is better to use boiling water at once, since the meat does not like sudden changes in temperature.
• Fill the sauce, cover, make the minimum heat, simmer the dish for ten minutes. When serving, sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Meat in orange sweet and sour sauce in Chinese
To prepare the sauce, you will need your own orange juice. If the citrus is sweet, then additionally add a little lemon juice or a few grains of concentrated dry acid.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of meat;
• 180 g of juice;
• 30 ml of soy sauce;
• 1 tsp. honey;
• 30 g of oil;
• 10 g garlic;
• 10 g flour or starch.
Cooking
1. Slice the washed meat (pork or veal), sprinkle with soy sauce, just a little bit, leave for twenty minutes.
2. Roll the pieces in flour or just pour, stir. Put it in a pan, fry the meat until light brown crust.
3. Combine the remaining sauce and orange juice, add crushed garlic and ginger to them, season with honey, dissolve. You can sprinkle some pepper for spiciness.
4. Pour the cooked meat with orange sauce, quickly bring to a boil. Then you need to put the fire at the very minimum, reduce the juice to half without a lid.
5. Decorate the finished dish with fresh herbs.
Sweet and Sour Meat in Chinese Style with Eggplant
Another vegetable version of appetizing meat in Chinese in sweet and sour sauce. It is advisable to use for cooking small eggplants, which are convenient to cut into sticks along the length.
Ingredients
• 300 g of eggplants;
• 600 g of meat;
• 80 ml of soy sauce;
• 10 g of starch;
• 10 g of sugar, ginger, garlic;
• half a large lemon;
• 150 g carrots;
• greens, oil. Cooking
1. We cut the eggplants, first along in two parts, then each still in half and again. Should make long straws. If the vegetable is bitter, then they need to soak, leave for about fifteen minutes.
2. Meat, too, cut into strips, add starch, which can be replaced with flour, stir, pour soy sauce, about half should go. We also reserve about fifteen minutes.
3. Put the eggplants in a red-hot frying pan with butter, fry quickly to ruddy color and remove.
4. Fry the carrot, cut or rubbed into straws, also lightly fry.
5. Lay out the meat, pre-press, bring to readiness, add the prepared carrots and eggplants.
6. Mix 150 ml of water with sugar, squeezed lemon juice, ginger and sauce, which remained. Pour into the pan.
7. We cover, heat the food for about five minutes, the dish can be served.
Sweet and Sour Meat in Chinese Style - Tips and Tricks
• If the meat of a not very young animal is used for a Chinese dish, then leave it to marinate for a couple of hours, just do the same with beef, which is easy to overdry.
• If the sauce starts to burn quickly, you need to pour in some boiling water, stir, set the smallest fire and cover the pan, let the dish stew until ready.
• Chinese meat is often sprinkled with sesame seeds, it is very beautiful and looks impressive, but not less tasty is obtained with chopped walnuts.
