If you order sweet and sour pork from a Chinese restaurant, then you might remember that the pork is often heavily fried in oil before tossing with the sauce. In this recipe, the pork is fried in a very small amount of oil. The sauce is a little lighter than the restaurants deliver too.
How to trim Pork Tenderloin:
In this recipe, you want to remove any visible fat on the tenderloin. Once the fat is removed, you’ll remove the silverskin too. The silverskin is the thin shiny membrane attached to the tenderloin. To remove, slip the tip of your knife under the silvery skin and start slicing back and forth with the sharp edge of the blade angled upward, keeping the membrane tight as you are cutting. Continue to slice the skin off in this manner until all the skin is removed. Then your tenderloin is ready to cut into cubes for stir-frying.
How to make Sweet and Sour Pork:
The pork is tossed with a little bit of cornstarch before frying in the oil. Fresh ginger and garlic are added in with the pork and stir fried until fragrant. Green bell pepper and chopped pineapple are added next and cooked until crisp-tender. At this point, your dinner is going to start smelling really, really good! Next you’ll add the sauce- a simple mixture of cornstarch, water, rice vinegar, sugar, ketchup and soy sauce. You’ll let that sauce boil and simmer for a couple of minutes, just until thickened. That’s it. Dinner is done!
If you are following the Weight Watchers Freestyle SmartPoints program, each serving of this Sweet and Sour pork will count as 7 points. There are four servings in this recipe. If you’re not following a diet, then don’t worry about that. Eat as much as you want, and enjoy it!
I like to serve Sweet and Sour Pork over steamed rice. Then you can spoon a little bit of the extra sauce on top. Now you can enjoy eating Chinese take-out at home!
Here are a few more pork tenderloin recipes you might like to try:
Hoisin Pork Stir Fry Pork Tenderloin with Mango- Lime Salsa Family- Style Pork Tacos Island- Style Pork Tenderloin Maple- Glazed Pork Tenderloin Honey- Sesame Pork Tenderloin Honey Mustard Pork Tenderloin Sweet and Spicy Pork Tenderloin
