Sweet and Sour Pork

An easy Sweet and Sour Pork recipe made with leftover roast pork, pineapples and peppers in a delicious sweet and sour sauce made from scratch with a few simple ingredients. It's a quick dish ready in less than 15 minutes, which makes it ideal as a homemade midweek meal.

Chinese food must be one of the most popular take-away options, and the choices are endless. And sweet and sour dishes remain the absolutely favourite when it comes to a good meal. Whether you go for sweet and sour chicken or pork, you know you are in for a treat.

But making your own fake-away at home is a lot simpler than you'd think. Especially if you have some good leftovers from your Roast Pork with Crackling. We absolutely love Sunday roasts, and leftovers are never thrown away, but turned into delicious dishes that make Mondays as exciting.

This sweet and sour with leftover pork is super easy to make. Since the meat is cooked already, all we need to worry about is the sauce and the veggies. And that's the easy bit.

HOW TO MAKE SWEET AND SOUR PORK

the sweet and sour sauce

Start by making the sauce, the dish comes together very quickly, and it's better to have everything prepped and ready to be cooked.

• in a bowl, add the cornflour (corn starch) with a tablespoon of pineapple juice
• mix well to get a runny paste, then add the soy sauce, cider vinegar, ketchup, sugar and the remaining pineapple juice
• mix again

HOW TO PUT THE DISH TOGETHER

• heat up the oil in a large pan
• add the chopped onion and fry until golden
• in go the chopped peppers and garlic, and give it a good stir
• leave to cook for 2-3 minutes for the peppers to soften slightly
• add the cubed pork and sauce, and leave it to simmer for 5 minutes or so for the pork and veggies to coat well in the sauce
• add the pineapples and give everything a stir
• serve hot on a bed of rice or with noodles

EASY SWAPS

This sweet and sour pork stir fry is a fantastic midweek meal for the whole family. And a lot cheaper and quicker to put together than any take-out.

You can make the sweet and sour pork without pineapple too, I have this delicious sweet and sour sauce that I used for my sweet and sour chicken recipe, and that uses only ketchup, vinegar and brown sugar to get that unmistakable taste.

Leftover pork can be replaced with leftover chicken or beef. If you use raw pork rather than already cooked, you can follow my version of sweet and sour chicken in the link above to cook it the same way, the cooking time shouldn't be much different.

If you want to up the nutritional value, add any other veggies that can be stir fried fast: greens, carrots cut julienne, baby corn, celery or pak choi. Do give it a go, it's absolutely delicious!

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