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Title: Sweet and Sour Pork (Goo Lo Yuke)

Yield: 1 servings

1 lb Pork butt cut into 1-inch
-pieces

MMMMM-----------------------MEAT MARINADE----------------------------
1 tb Sherry
2 tb Water
2 tb Kikkoman soy sauce
4 ts Flour
4 ts Cornstarch
1 Green pepper, cut into 1/2
-inch chunks
1 Onion, cut into wedges
12 Maraschino cherries
1 c Canned lichee
1 c Pineapple chunks

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1/2 c Brown sugar
1/2 c Vinegar
1 ts Salt
4 tb Catsup
3/4 c Pineapple juice
4 ts Cornstarch

Had a house guest last week++an old friend who likes my Chinese
cooking, but tends to prefer the tamer stuff++you know, things
without tentacles or feet. So I whipped up a batch of this
excellent, quick and easy sweet and sour pork. It's a long time
favorite that I haven't cooked for a some time. Been too busy with
Thai and Vietnamese food to make it. It was just as excellent as I
remember it being and I actually improved on it with a couple of
substitutions.

I used 1/2 cup palm sugar instead of 1/2 cup brown sugar. Palm sugar
has a rich, complex and addicting taste while being a little less
cloyingly sweet than regular sugars. It gives a taste that's
"exotic" without being obvious. Where the recipe calls for 3/4 cup
pineapple juice I used 3/4 cup of the juice from some brandied
peaches I made. I made 'em months ago and froze the leftover juice
specifically to use in a sweet and sour dish. (This is a good thing
to do with any sweet fruity type juice.)

I left out the maraschino cherries++bleechhhhh!++and substituted a
red bell pepper for the color contrast. The only thing even faintly
exotic in the recipe is the canned lichees (also a good juice to save
for sweet and sour stuff) and that can be omitted if you can't find
them++or use canned apricots or whatever instead. You could also use
longans or rambutans, which are close relatives of lichee, quite
successfully.

Yield: 6 servings

PREPARATION: Drain fruits, prepare sauce mixture. Marinate pork in
meat marinade for 1/2 hour.

COOKING: Deep fry pork cubes in a wok for about 3 to 4 minutes until
golden brown. Drain. Pour all the oil back into the bottle. Add
sauce mixture into wok and stir until thickened. Add green pepper
and onions and cook for 2 minutes. Add pork cubes and stir until
heated through. Add fruits and stir until they're coated with the
sauce.

DO-AHEAD NOTES: Cook through making the sauce. Just before serving,
add pork, vegetables and fruit according to directions.

From "The Chinese Village Cookbook." A practical guide to Cantonese
country cooking. Rhoda Yee, Yerba Buena Press, San Francisco. 1975.
Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; March 11 1991.

Note:

litchi = lychee = lichee = lichi = leechee = laichee Notes: This popular Chinese fruit is about
the size of a walnut, with a bumpy red shell encasing white translucent pulp that's similar in texture to a grape.
The flavor is sweet, exotic, and very juicy. Don't eat the shell or the seed. Fresh litchis
are available from May to July. If you can't find them, canned litchis are a good substitute.
Don't confuse fresh litchis with litchi nuts, which are sun-dried litchis that have a much different texture.
Substitutes: rambutans (slightly larger) OR longans (smaller and sweeter, but not as juicy) OR grapes

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Title: Slow Cook Sweet and Sour Pork
Categories: Crockpot, Pork, Onion, Vegetable
Yield: 1 servings

2 lb Cubed pork
3 tb Soy sauce
1/4 c Vinegar
1 sm Onion, sliced
2 Tomato, cut in slices
2 tb Cornstarch
1/4 ts Ginger
1/4 c Brown sugar packed
2 Green peppers, cut into
-strips

In slow cooker mix pork with cornstarch. Then mix in remaining
ingredients except green pepper and tomatoes. Cook on low for 8
hours. Stir in green pepper and tomatoes. Cook on high for 10
minutes.

From: Jim Bodle