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Sweet and Sour Key Lime Pork

Sweet and Sour Key Lime Pork - A Family Feast
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A few notes: Since the sauce is made separately from the dish and added at the end, you have the opportunity to adjust the taste to your liking. The sauce is (of course) sweet and sour, however if you want it sweeter, add more brown sugar. If you want it less sweet, add more Key Lime juice. Also, the sauce can be made the day ahead if you wish and stored in the refrigerator until needed. Lastly, as with most stir-fry dishes that are cooked using a wok, preparing all of the ingredients in advance is a must so you can cook the stir-fry quickly.

Ingredients

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For the Sweet and Sour Sauce

  • 1 6-ounce can pineapple juice
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 teaspoons regular soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons key lime juice (about 4 Key Limes)
  • 1/2 teaspoon lime zest
  • 1/2 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup tomato paste
  • 1/2 teaspoon red chili paste (optional)

For the Pork

  • 2 pounds pork tenderloin, cleaned of silver skin and cut into one-inch cubes
  • 1 tablespoon sherry or rice wine
  • 1 teaspoon regular soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon oyster sauce (optional, you can also just increase the amount of soy sauce used)
  • 2 tablespoons key lime juice (about 3 or 4 Key Limes)
  • 2 egg whites
  • 3/4 cup corn starch or more (for dredging pork). Excess will be discarded
  • 2-3 inches of canola oil for your wok

For the Stir Fry

  • 5 tablespoons canola oil, divided (it's OK to use some of the oil you used to fry the pork)
  • 1 tablespoon fresh garlic, minced
  • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, minced
  • 1 cup onion, cut into large bite sized pieces
  • 1 bunch scallions, white part cut into one inch pieces (tops used as garnish)
  • 1/2 fresh pineapple cleaned and cut into chunks (about 2 cups)
  • 1/2 pound carrots, cleaned and cut on bias into bite sized pieces
  • 1 large green pepper, cut into large bite sized pieces
  • One bunch scallion tops, sliced and used as garnish

Instructions

  1. Place all sauce ingredients in a medium sauce pan and heat to combine. Remove from heat and store until needed.
  2. In a bowl, mix pork, sherry, soy sauce, oyster sauce and key lime juice. Let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes while you prepare the remaining ingredients.
  3. Start your rice if you are serving with white rice.
  4. After the pork marinates for 30 minutes, add the two egg whites and work into the mixture with your hands. Pour out the corn starch onto a platter or bowl and dredge the pork in the corn starch. Do a few at a time and lay out on a board not touching. They will be sticky and gooey. Repeat for all pork using more corn starch as needed.
  5. Add oil to wok to about two to three inches (deep enough to cover pork as it cooks). Heat to 350 and drop a few pieces of pork in at a time using tongs. Have a plate lined with paper towels close by.
  6. As the pork cooks, it will brown and float. As long as you can maintain a steady 350 degrees in the oil, keep adding and removing the pork until you have cooked all of the pork pieces. Set aside. A spider strainer like this one works best to remove the cooked pork from the oil.
  7. Drain off oil into a metal container. You will be removing five tablespoons of this oil to cook the vegetables and the remaining oil can be saved for other recipes. If you do save it, strain it a few times with cheese cloth after it cools and store in a container with a tight fitting lid (a mason jar works well for this).
  8. Clean out the wok, dry and heat to hot. Add two tablespoons of the oil and stir fry garlic and ginger for one minute. Add onions and scallion bottoms and stir fry for about two to three minutes until the onions just start to become a little soft. Add one more tablespoon of oil, add pineapple and stir fry for two minutes. Remove this mixture to a large bowl.
  9. Heat Wok back up with remaining two tablespoons of oil and add carrots and stir fry for two minutes then add peppers on top of carrots. Stir fry one more minute and add onion and pineapple mixture back in. Stir fry until vegetables are at your level of doneness then add cooked pork and sauce over vegetables and pineapple. Stir until heated through and remove to the bowl you used for onions and pineapple.
  10. Serve over rice and topped with chopped scallion tops.

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