Posted on 12th Jul 2025

Crispy Sweet & Sour Pork

Crispy, crunchy, and downright delicious! Game-changing sweet and sour pork.

Cuisine

Time

1 hour mins

Servings

2 people

Ingredients

300g pork tenderloin, sliced into 2-3mm thick slices
½ tbsp bicarbonate of soda
½ thumbsized piece ginger, finely sliced into matchsticks
½ carrot, finely sliced into matchsticks
1 large red chilli, finely sliced into matchsticks
2 spring onions, finely sliced into matchsticks

The Marinade

½ tsp salt
¼ tsp white pepper
1 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine

The Batter

250g potato starch (swapsies: corn flour / corn starch)
200ml water

The Sauce

6 tbsp rice vinegar
4 tbsp sugar
4 tbsp water
¼ tsp salt

Method

Massage the bicarbonate of soda into the sliced pork and allow to rest for 10-15 minutes. Then give the pork a rinse in cold running water to remove the excess soda. Once rinsed, squeeze the pork between the palms of your hands.

Now massage the marinade ingredients into the washed and sliced pork.

Slice the ginger, red chilli, carrot and spring onions ready to stir fry later.

Mix the sauce ingredients together until the sugar is mostly dissolved.

Next mix the batter ingredients together (the texture of this batter is slightly strange and should resemble a gluey paste rather than a traditional batter). Now add the marinated pork to the thick gluey batter and massage the pork quite vigorously into the batter so that each piece of pork is well covered.

BUILD YOUR WOK CLOCK: Start at 12 o’clock with the battered pork, followed by the ginger, carrot, the sauce, and then lastly the red chilli and spring onions.