To celebrate the upcoming Chinese New Year, I will probably be sharing a series of Chinese recipes with you on Rasa Malaysia, and it started with my ginger and scallion fish Recipe a few days ago. These days, I have Christine of Christine’s Recipes here with her “Rainbow FriedTofu” dish—or sweet and sour fried tofu. Christine’s recipes offer a good selection of homey Chinese Recipes which she makes for her family. If you read Chinese, you need to also check out her Chinese weblog. Please give her your warmest welcome!
Rasa Malaysia is one of my preferred food blogs that Iâ€ve subscribed for a long time. I definitely admire Bee’s cooking, blogging and photography skills. When she asked me if I was interested in writing up a guest post, immediately I sent her a “YES” as it€™s my honor indeed. Thanks to Bee for letting me have a chance to share my favored recipe—sweet and sour fried tofu—on her blog. Here you go.
We’ve got lots of various Chinese dishes with sweet and sour sauce. Just name a couple of, sweet and sour chicken, sweet and sour pork, sweet and sour beef, which are traditional and nicely accepted in unique countries. I posted these old-fashioned recipes on my humble weblog too. Whenever I go into a Chinese restaurant, I spot numerous Aussie folks would pick a dish in sweet and sour sauce. I can’t image how my Aussie friends are crazy about the taste of sweet and sour. Recently I created a dish on my own using this make-Aussie-crazy sauce with my preferred deep-fried tofu, feeling genuinely great with both of the intriguing combination of ingredients and colorful outlook. So I also name it as “Rainbow FriedTofu”. This dish goes very properly with Jasmine rice, or served as an appetizer…(get sweet and sour fried tofu recipe after the jump)
This sweet and sour pork is prepared American-style with more batter and deep-fried twice for extra crispiness.
Serves 4 to 6
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1 tablespoon cornstarch dissolved in 4 tablespoons water
Batter:
1/3 cup flour
1/3 cup cornstarch
1 egg white, lightly beaten
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/3 cup warm water, as needed
Other:
1 carrot
1/2 red bell pepper
1/2 green bell pepper
1/2 cup pineapple chunks
3 cups oil for deep-frying, or as needed
Preparation:
Directions for sweet and sour pork
Cut the pork into 1-inch cubes. Marinate in the soy sauce and cornstarch for 20 minutes.
To prepare the sauce, in a small bowl, combine the sugar, ketchup, dark soy sauce, salt, water or juice and vinegar. Set aside. In a separate bowl, dissolve the cornstarch in the water. Set aside.
Peel the carrot and chop on the diagonal into 1-inch pieces. Cut the bell peppers in half, remove the seeds and cut into cubes.
Heat the oil for deep–frying to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
For the batter, combine the flour and cornstarch. Stir in the egg white and vegetable oil. Add as much of the warm water as is needed to form a thick batter that is neither too dry or too moist. (The batter should not be runny, but should drop off the back of a spoon).
Dip the marinated pork cubes in the batter. Deep-fry in batches, taking care not to overcrowd the wok. Deep-fry the pork until it is golden brown. Remove and drain on paper towels.
(If desired you can deep-fry the pork at second time to make it extra crispy. Make sure the oil is back up to 375 before you begin deep-frying again).
To prepare the sweet and sour sauce, bring the sauce ingredients to a boil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the carrot, green pepper, and pineapple. Bring to a boil again and thicken with cornstarch mixture, stirring. Check the sauce one more time and adjust seasonings, adding salt and/or vinegar if desired. Serve hot over the deep-fried pork. Serve the sweet and sour pork over rice.
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