Vegetarian Sweet & Sour Pork
Level
easy
Cooking
15 min
Preparation
25 min
Ingredients
Servings
4
Tempeh cubed | 120 g |
Light Soy Sauce | 1 1⁄2 tbsp |
Garlic Powder or freshly minced garlic | 1 tsp |
| Wet Mixture | |
Egg whisked | 1 |
Corn Flour | 3 tbsp |
Plain Flour | 2 tbsp |
Baking Powder | 1 tsp |
Cold Water | 1⁄2 cup |
Fine Salt | 2 tsp |
| Dry Mixture | |
Potato Starch add more if needed | 3 cups |
| Sweet and Sour Sauce | |
Tomato Ketchup | 1⁄3 cup |
Pineapple Juice from a pack or pineapple syrup from a can | 1⁄2 cup |
Distilled White Vinegar | 1⁄3 cup |
Light Soy Sauce | 1 tbsp |
Corn Flour | 1 1⁄2 tbsp |
Water room temperature) | 1⁄3 cup |
White Sugar to taste | 1⁄4 cup |
Ground Black Pepper | 1 dash |
| Stir-fry | |
Pineapples cut into chunks | 1 can |
Red Capsicum deseeded and sliced into squares | 1 |
Green Capsicum deseeded and sliced into squares | 1 |
Yellow Capsicum deseeded and sliced into squares | 1 |
Onion medium-sized, quartered | 1 |
Garlic minced | 1 tsp |
Ginger minced | 1 tsp |
How to cook
Marinate the tempeh
- Marinate the cubed tempeh with the garlic powder and light soy sauce.
- Let it marinate for 10 minutes.
Prepare the sweet and sour sauce
- Add the tomato ketchup, light soy sauce, white vinegar, pineapple juice, corn flour, water, salt and sugar to a bowl, mix well and set aside.
Prepare the wet mixture
- Mix the light soy sauce, egg, corn flour, plain flour, baking powder, cold water and salt, then set aside.
Prepare the fried tempeh
- Coat the marinated cubed tempeh with the wet mixture, and then the potato starch
- Deep fry the tempeh until golden brown.
- Strain the excess oil on several kitchen towels and set the fried tempeh aside.
Start cooking
- Heat the oil over high heat, then sauté the onion, garlic, and ginger for 1-2 minutes until the onions are cooked.
- Add in the red, green and yellow capsicums, then cook for 2 minutes.
- Add in the pineapple chunks and cook for 1 minute.
- Lower the heat to medium then stir in the sweet and sour sauce.
- Mix well and then leave the sauce to boil for 2-3 minutes, continuously stirring until the sauce thickens.
- Once the sauce has thickened, add in the fried tempeh and immediately mix well in the sauce.
- Stir quickly so the fried tempeh can remain crisp.
- Serve warm on the side with some white rice!
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