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Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples

Sweet-and-Sour Pork with Pineapple

Wonderfully tasty braised pork with chunks of pineapple. This pork comes together quickly — even faster than a simple goulash. Tomato and soy sauce with pineapple syrup build a rich new flavor that pairs beautifully with the meat. Pork like this, studded with pineapple, is a great main for a special dinner served over boiled potatoes.

Elena

Recipe author

Pork in sweet and sour sauce with pineapples

Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Pork

600

Pineapple (canned pineapple chunks in syrup — one 500 g can)

300

Vegetable oil

Soy sauce

Tomato sauce

Wheat flour

Cornstarch

Salt

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 25 % 9 g

Fats 42 % 15 g

Carbohydrates 33 % 12 g

194 kcal

GI: 58 / 33 / 8

Cooking method

Cooking time: 50 min

Step 1:

How do you make sweet-and-sour pork with pineapple? Gather your ingredients: boneless pork, canned pineapple chunks in syrup, soy sauce, tomato sauce, flour and cornstarch, dill, and vegetable oil.
Step 2:

Rinse the pork and cut it into medium cubes.
Step 3:

Toss the pork with the flour and cornstarch, coating each piece well in the mixture.
Step 4:

Heat the vegetable oil in a skillet and add the pork. Fry over high heat, stirring, for about seven minutes.
Step 5:

Drain the pineapple, reserving the syrup.
Step 6:

Add the pineapple chunks to the skillet with the meat, stir, and cook together for another 2–3 minutes.
Step 7:

Next, pour in the soy sauce and stir well.
Step 8:

After two minutes, add the tomato sauce, stir, and cook for another three minutes.
Step 9:

Following the tomato sauce, pour the reserved pineapple syrup into the skillet.
Step 10:

Season the pork in the sauce with salt and stir. Keep in mind that soy sauce is already salty, so go easy.
Step 11:

Cover the skillet and turn down the heat.
Step 12:

Simmer the pork in the sweet-and-sour sauce, covered, for 20 minutes.
Step 13:

Toward the end of cooking, finely chop the dill.
Step 14:

Add the chopped dill to the meat in the sauce, stir, and turn off the heat. Your sweet-and-sour pork with pineapple is ready.
Step 15:

Serve the pork hot, with a side dish and fresh vegetables.

The right pan makes a difference — a poor choice can spoil even the best recipe, so pick one suited to what you're cooking.
Every oil is good only up to a certain temperature — its smoke point, past which it starts to burn and form harmful compounds. Choose an oil with a high smoke point for frying.
Remember that soy sauce is quite salty. Cut back on the added salt so you don't overdo it.