Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, black vinegar sweet & sour pork. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Black Vinegar Sweet & Sour Pork is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Black Vinegar Sweet & Sour Pork is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have black vinegar sweet & sour pork using 22 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Black Vinegar Sweet & Sour Pork:
- Make ready 350 grams Thinly sliced pork belly
- Make ready 1/2 Carrot
- Take 1/2 Onion
- Take 2 Green peppers
- Prepare 1 Red bell pepper
- Make ready 1 Dried shiitake mushrooms
- Make ready 1 as much (to taste) Wood ear mushrooms
- Take 1 tbsp Sesame oil
- Take Pork seasonings
- Prepare 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- Get 1 dash Salt and pepper
- Get Sweet vinegar sauce
- Get 6 tbsp Black Vinegar
- Get 3 tbsp Sugar
- Get 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp Shaoxing wine
- Take 1 tbsp Oyster sauce
- Get 6 tbsp Soaking liquid from the dried shiitake mushrooms
- Get 1 tbsp Katakuriko
- Prepare For the batter
- Make ready 1 Egg
- Take 5 tbsp Katakuriko
Instructions to make Black Vinegar Sweet & Sour Pork:
- Cut 5 mm deep 3 mm wide slits into the pork, then cut into 2-3 cm chunks.
- Sprinkle the meat with the sake, salt, and pepper and rub into the meat to season. Let sit for 15 minutes, cutting the vegetables while you wait.
- Mix the sweet vinegar sauce ingredients beforehand. Mix well. Add the katakuriko.
- Rehydrate the wood ear mushrooms in water, remove the stems, and cut. Rehydrate the shiitake mushrooms in hot water for at least 3 hours, then slice into 1 mm.
- Cut the onions, green peppers, and carrots. Parboil the carrots in hot water for 3-5 minutes.
- Beat the egg well, then mix in the katakuriko. Soak the pork thoroughly in the mixture.
- Heat the oil to 170℃ and fry the pork. Once crispy, drain the oil.
- Turn the oil down to 160℃, then add the green peppers, then the onions, then the carrots into the oil and fry for about 15 seconds.
- Put the sweet vinegar sauce in a wok, then turn the heat to medium. Once thickened, add the vegetables and pork, increase the heat to high, and coat with the sauce.
- Drizzle 1 tablespoon of sesame oil around the edge of the wok, stir it up, and serve.
- It's a little expensive, but sweet & sour pork is best when made with black vinegar.
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