Recipe for Sweet and Sour Pork (Goo Lo Yuke) 
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Yield:
1
Ingredients:
Amount Ingredient
1 lb Pork butt cut into 1-inch, pieces
----------------- MEAT MARINADE ----------------
1 tbl Sherry
2 tbl Water
2 tbl Kikkoman soy sauce
4 tsp Flour
4 tsp Cornstarch
1 x Green pepper, cut into 1/2
chunks
1 x Onion, cut into wedges
12 x Maraschino cherries
1 cup Canned lichee
1 cup Pineapple chunks
----------------- SAUCE MIXTURE ----------------
1/2 cup Brown sugar
1/2 cup Vinegar
1 tsp Salt
4 tbl Catsup
3/4 cup Pineapple juice
Instructions:
Instructions: Had a house guest last weekan old friend who likes my Chinese cooking, but tends to prefer the tamer stuffyou know, things without tentacles or feet. So I whipped up a batch of this excellent, quick and easy sweet and sour pork. Its a long time favorite that I havent cooked for a some time. Been too busy with Thai and Vietnamese food to make it. It was just as excellent as I remember it being and I actually improved on it with a couple of substitutions.

I used 1/2 cup palm sugar instead of 1/2 cup brown sugar. Palm sugar has a rich, complex and addicting taste while being a little less cloyingly sweet than regular sugars. It gives a taste thats "exotic" without being obvious. Where the recipe calls for 3/4 cup pineapple juice I used 3/4 cup of the juice from some brandied peaches I made. I made em months ago and froze the leftover juice specifically to use in a sweet and sour dish.

(This is a good thing to do with any sweet fruity type juice.)

I left out the maraschino cherriesbleechhhhh!and substituted a red bell pepper for the color contrast. The only thing even faintly exotic in the recipe is the canned lichees (also a good juice to save for sweet and sour stuff) and that can be omitted if you cant find themor use canned apricots or whatever instead. You could also use longans or rambutans, which are close relatives of lichee, quite successfully.

Yield: 6 servings

PREPARATION: Drain fruits, prepare sauce mixture. Marinate pork in meat marinade for 1/2 hour.

COOKING: Deep fry pork cubes in a wok for about 3 to 4 minutes until golden brown. Drain. Pour all the oil back into the bottle. Add sauce mixture into wok and stir until thickened. Add green pepper and onions and cook for 2 minutes. Add pork cubes and stir until heated through. Add fruits and stir until theyre coated with the sauce.

DO-AHEAD NOTES: Cook through making the sauce. Just before serving, add pork, vegetables and fruit according to directions.

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