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Easy sweet & sour pork

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Ingredients:
PART 1
1 1/2 lbsLean pork butt or fresh ham
1/2 cupSoya sauce
1/2 cupSherry
Salt
2 tbspOil
PART 2
1/2 cupWhite sugar
1/2 cupWhite vinegar
1 1/2 tbspCorn starch, dissolved in
1/4 cupWater
1/4 cupPineapple juice
3 tbspTomato soup
SUGGESTED EMBELLISHMENTS
1/4 cupPineapple chunks
Few pieces of raw carrot
-sliced or shredded
1/2 Green pepper shredded
1 Tomato, cut into wedges
1/2 cupMixed sweet pickles
Procedures:
1Part 1: Cut pork into ½x½x1" rectangles.
2Marinate in mixture of salt, soya sauce and sherry for at least half an hour.
3While meat is marinating, prepare part Add 2 tablespoons oil to wok and heat up to smoking point.
4Take a slotted spoon and use it to lift pork pieces from marinate, place in wok and brown meat on all sides.
5Lower heat slightly to medium high and continue to cook meat for a full 15 minutes, using turner to stir pieces occasionally.
6At end of cooking time, place meat in serving dish.
7Pour sauce from part 2 over it.
8Part 2: Place white sugar and vinegar in a small 1 quart pot.
9Boil together until sugar is dissolved.
10Stir up corn starch in ?cup water.
11Add to vinegar-sugar boil.
12Stir solution, lower heat to medium low, add pineapple juice and tomato soup.
13Boil solution 15-20 minutes, until it turns from milky red to a clear reddish yellow.
14Add suggested embellishments.
15You can use all of them or some of them.
16Cook 2 minutes.
17Serve over part Note: pork spare ribs cut into 1 ? lengths may be used in place of pork butt.
18However, spare ribs have more fat than fresh ham or pork butt, so use 1 tablespoon less oil in stir-frying ribs or else discard fat which accumulates in wok when ribs are finished cooking.
19Also part 2 (sans embellishments) can be made in a larger quantity and store in a covered plastic container in refrigerator for 2-3 weeks
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