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Recipes » Sweet & Sour Pork, Chicken or Quorn  
Ingredients

1lb diced pork or chicken, or 8 oz quorn chunks

4 oz bamboo shoots

1 green pepper

2 spring onions

1 tsp salt

2 tblsps brandy

1 egg

1 tblsp cornflour

Oil for deep frying

3 tblsps plain flour

Sauce

3 tblsps vinegar

3 tblsps sugar

½ tsp salt

1 tblsp tomato puree

1 tblsp soy sauce

1 tblsp cornflour

1 tsp sesame seed oil

  
Sweet & Sour Pork, Chicken or Quorn
If you serve this up at a dinner party, it'll be the first to go. Make sure it's a course by itself, served only with some fried rice or chow mein (fried soft noodles), because everything else will be ignored.
  
The Recipe

Looks almost good enough to eat, doesn't it.Mix the pork, chicken or quorn (lets just call it "the meat") with the salt and brandy, and marinade for 30 mins. Add a beaten egg & the cornflour and stir well. Blend together the sauce ingredients.

Heat the oil in a wok. Coat each piece of the meat with flour & deep-fry for 3 minutes, then remove the quorn from the oil with a perforated spoon. Heat the oil again. Refry the meat with the bamboo shoots for 2 minutes or until golden, then remove it and drain off the excess oil.

Leave 1 tblsp oil in the wok for stir-frying. Add the sliced spring onion and green pepper and stir-fry for two minutes. Remove from the heat and add the sauce. Stir until it thickens slightly, then add the meat, replace on the heat and stir fry for a further minute or until the sauce has completely thickened, and each piece of meat is covered. Serve hot with egg-fried rice.

Serves 4 as a main course.

  
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