Gabajou in sweet and sour sauce in Chinese

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare pork products in batter. My pork, dry with napkins. The water should be cold, icy. I have it right with pieces of ice. Until the very moment of making the batter, it should be in the refrigerator. Sift flour and starch.

2. Step 2:

   

   We cut the meat into small pieces about 2x3 cm in size and 2-2.5 cm thick .

3. Step 3:

   

   We chop off pieces of meat, thanks to this procedure, it will be very tender after frying.

4. Step 4:

   

   Before dipping the meat into the batter, we will prepare all the products for the sweet and sour sauce. Mine-we peel vegetables. Now let's start chopping all the vegetables so that they are at our fingertips at the right moment, since this dish is prepared quite quickly. At the same time, we will not have time for vegetables later, since we will need to fry the meat quickly and make sure that it does not burn.

5. Step 5:

   

   Cut carrots into long strips, onions into half rings (in Chinese: along the onion, not across), pepper into squares.

6. Step 6:

   

   Garlic and ginger are cut into thin plates.

7. Step 7:

   

   We take ice water out of the refrigerator (it allows the batter to remain crispy when frying). Pour it into a deep container, add the egg white (we do not need the yolk), shake it well with a fork, quickly add starch and flour. Mix well until a homogeneous consistency without lumps.

8. Step 8:

   

   Dip pieces of beaten meat into the batter. We make sure that the batter is distributed evenly over them from all sides.

10. Step 9:

    

    The batter should have the consistency of thick sour cream. Mix the meat in the batter.

11. Step 10:

    

    Heat a deep frying pan or wok on the fire. Pour vegetable oil into it, warm it up well. Dip portions of meat in starch batter into deep fryer and fry until fully cooked - until golden brown for 7-8 minutes . To check the readiness of the meat, cut in half a piece of meat from the 1st batch and make sure. In two or three passes, fry all the slices of meat.

12. Step 11:

    

    We spread the meat on paper napkins so that excess oil is absorbed. At the same time, we cover the meat with something on top so that it does not cool down.

13. Step 12:

    

    Pour 3-4 tablespoons of vegetable oil into a heated frying pan, warm it up, throw garlic and ginger, almost immediately put onions and carrots. Fry, stirring constantly, for 4-5 minutes.

14. Step 13:

    

    Add bell pepper and pineapple, simmer constantly stirring for 4-5 minutes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Pour soy sauce, starch previously diluted in a small amount of water (1 tbsp. l.), honey, squeeze the juice out of half a lemon, salt and pepper to taste.

16. Step 15:

    

    Mix thoroughly, turn down the heat and simmer the sauce until thickened for about 8 minutes.

17. Step 16:

    

    We spread the deep-fried meat in batter on a serving plate or in a deep dish, pour plenty of sweet and sour sauce on top and serve hot. Enjoy it! Try it, it's incredibly delicious and fragrant!