tradition to cook various dishes sweet and sour sauce came to Russia from Chinese cuisine, which is a combination of flavors is considered one of the best.Many cooks know that the best dish can happen if you follow the advice given in the original source, or at least as close as possible to try this recipe.Most gourmets wonder why pork is cooked in a sweet and sour sauce, served in a Chinese restaurant, it is very different in taste from a similar food made at home.Secret of the cooks are many, ranging from product selection, finishing with special spices and herbs.
However, you can still try to cook like a dish and surprise their home or guests.After all, if for something to take to the soul, the result may turn out stunning, and you are sure to pass for an excellent cook.
most often cooked in this sauce, pork or beef but you can take a lamb, poultry meat (usually chicken).The basis for dishes with a modern twist is the tomato paste or concentrated juice.As a result of this, to taste the resulting product with a chicken may resemble famous Georgian dish "chakhokhbili."The difference will be that in sweet and sour sauce placed special spices that make the taste more intense.
should be noted that in the preparation of dishes according to Chinese tradition is almost never used salt.The emphasis is on the other flavor characteristics.In the kitchen, a Chinese sauce is ready not only for meat, marinate it and make seafood, vegetables, fish, and so on. D.
So if the basis to take the chicken, the recipe would be as follows.Half a kilo of fillet cut middle-sized pieces, preferably of the same size.After that, the meat is marinated.For the chicken in this case, use soy sauce (3-4 tablespoons) mixed with raw egg.Marinade is recommended to add salt to taste (too much salt is not necessary to put, as the taste of the mixture and so get saturated).To make sweet and sour sauce for chicken, 375 grams of vinegar required (not advisable to take normal and used in Chinese cuisine - rice).The liquid is boiled, it put a little less cups of sugar, and it is left for a few minutes on the fire.Then put the mixture in half a cup of ketchup (you can tomato paste), soy sauce and spoon.The resulting mass is boiled for about 5 minutes.To thicken the sauce, put in a little flour.Preparation of the mixture is poured a little fried meat in a frying pan.Chicken is left to stew until tender.
The dish can add onions, carrots and other vegetables, so there will be more flavors.Also do not forget that almost everywhere in Chinese cuisine uses ginger, which can be put in sweet and sour sauce as the raw and pickled.It is worth noting that the meat can be cooked separately and before you serve it, pour the resulting sauce.There
following recipe how to make sweet and sour sauce, which may well be suitable for seafood.So, you will need about 400 grams of a medium-sized peeled shrimp.Two small onion finely shred.2-3 peppers, preferably of different colors, cut into cubes.Vegetables fried in a pan for a while.The shrimp is added to a raw egg, a little flour and a couple of tablespoons of soy sauce, then they are fried in deep fat.Seafood placed to vegetables.It is filled with a mixture of tomato paste (about 5 tablespoons. L.), You can replace it with ketchup or concentrated juice, rice vinegar and sugar (2 tablespoons. L.).Dish preparing about 5 minutes.At least here laid out pieces of pineapple, then dishes some time left over low heat, and then removed and allowed to cool.