Sweet and Sour Sauced Pork

Recipe Ingredients

1/4 lb	113g / 4oz	Lean boneless pork
1 teaspoon	5ml	Cornstarch
2 teaspoons	10ml	Cooking oil
1 tablespoon	15ml	Water
1 teaspoon	5ml	Sesame oil
1 tablespoon	15ml	Red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon	15ml	Carrot * (small)
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Soy sauce
1/2		Green bell pepper **
1		Ginger
1		Green onion - sliced
1/2 cup	118ml	Pineapple chunks - drained
2 tablespoons	30ml	Brown sugar
		Hot cooked rice

Recipe Instructions

* Carrot should be sliced thinly and use a bias cut.

** Pepper should be cut into strips.

Partially freeze pork. Thinly slice into bite-size strips.

Preheat a 6 1/2-inch microwave browning dish on 100% power for 4 minutes. Add cooking oil and sesame oil to browning dish. Swirl to coat the dish.

Add the sliced pork. Micro-cook, covered, on 100% power for 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 minutes or till pork is no longer pink, stirring every 30 seconds. Stir in sliced carrot, green pepper strips and sliced green onion. Micro-cook, covered, on 100% power for 2 to 3 minutes more or till the vegetables are crisp-tender.

Drain off liquid. In a 2-cup measure stir together the brown sugar, and cornstarch. Stir in the water, red wine vinegar, soy sauce and ground ginger. Micro-cook, uncovered, on 100% power for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes or until thickened and bubbly, stirring every 30 seconds.

Stir in drained pineapple chunks. Micro-cook, uncovered, on 100% power about 30 seconds more or till the pineapple is heated through. Toss the pineapple mixture with the pork mixture and serve with cooked rice.

Source:
Ed Griffin

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