Recipe: Sweet & Sour pork and chicken (咕嚕肉) + instruction video
In the video underneath, I will teach you how to make the popular Hong Kong dish, sweet & sour pork and chicken (咕嚕肉). It is normally made with just pork, but I decided to use both chicken and pork for the different flavors and textures. Instead of the traditional pineapple, I used halved strawberries and pieces of cantaloupe melon. I also created a halved cantaloupe bowl to serve it in. It is the perfect dish for when the temperatures are high and when you have no appetite. You can eat it with a bowl of rice or just do it like me and have the whole bowl for yourself by adding a whole bunch of fruit, which fills you up a lot. I was lucky to find semi-sweet strawberries and a - not too firm and not too soft - cantaloupe melon with a sweet flavor, of which the sweetness was enhanced by the sweet and sour sauce. I also tried making these with pieces of sour nectarines and pieces of Galia melon too, but they didn't taste as good.
Ingredients for the fried pieces of pork and chicken
- 400 g pork and 400 g chicken (you can also use only one kind of meat)
- some salt to season the meat
- one egg
- potato starch
Ingredients for the sweet and sour sauce
- half a bowl of water
- 4 tbsp of white vinegar
- 2 large tbsp sugar
- 3 large tbsp of ketchup
