Sweet and Sour Pork by Jet Tila (full)

What's happening everyone, Jett Thiele here and welcome back to another episode of Cook with Knorr. I'm partnering with Knorr to bring you this special cooking series. Join me and other amazing guests every single week and we'll show you how to make some easy recipes that you can cook at home. Explore recipes packed with traditions and rich umami flavors that everyone in the entire family will love. So today we're going to make sweet and sour pork. Color often has symbolic meanings including in food. Food that is orange or red is often considered to represent happiness or luck which is definitely a key feature in this dish. Let's cook. Okay first up let's talk about ingredients. For today's recipe we'll be utilizing Knorr liquid seasoning. Now Knorr liquid seasoning brings out that amazing umami flavor that we're all looking for. It's the perfect all-around companion in the kitchen as you can use it to cook, marinate, sprinkle and even serve as a dipping sauce. I promise this will instantly become your favorite seasoning. We'll be using two tablespoons to bring out flavor in this dish. Other ingredients include two-thirds cup brown sugar, two-thirds cup apple cider vinegar, two-thirds cup tomato paste, one pound boneless pork loin, one tablespoon vegetable oil, one chopped small onion, two medium diced carrots, one bell pepper medium diced, one quarter teaspoon ground ginger, two cloves of garlic chopped and eight ounces of large diced pineapple. All right team let's get cooking. Okay so let's start by making the marinade for the sweet and sour pork. I'm starting with brown sugar then apple cider vinegar. I've got some tomato paste here. So I'm basically working this together until the tomato paste works right in and the brown sugar dissolves and we're going to finish this marinade up with our star ingredient the Knorr liquid seasoning. All right so don't forget this is your pork marinade plus your stir fry sauce for the sweet and sour pork. So this is just simply pork loin that's been cut into one to one and a half inch cubes. I'm going to bathe this pork in half of the marinade and reserve the other half for the stir fry. So I'm just going to take a second to work this in. Marinade's job is to get into the pork not just coat the outside. So marinate your pork for 20 to 30 minutes and then we'll be ready for the stir fry. All right team so let's get into the pan. I really like preheating my pans for at least two to three minutes making sure you get that sear. I've also drained off most of the marinade on the pork. Okay so let's do this. I'm starting with a little bit of vegetable oil in the pan. To that I'm going to add my ginger and garlic. Nice and carefully pork into the pan always away from you right this kind of keeps the sputter away from you. Really take advantage of the surface area of your pan because you really want to brown this pork all the way through and because it's pork you definitely want to cook it all the way through. Okay so I'm feeling pretty good there I've got a nice even browning all the way around this pork is about 70 to 80 percent cooked through. I need to give it a little time for the vegetables anyway so let's add them now. Let's start with our carrots, bell peppers, and I'm using green here just a personal preference, and then finally onion. So the pork is brown the vegetables are sweated down it's time to add our sauce. So this is all that deliciousness the tomato paste the cider vinegar. The Knorr liquid seasoning is the secret to get all that savoriness that you want out of sweet and sour pork. Look at that smells delicious looks delicious and it's time to add our pineapple. So I'm adding the pineapple right at the end not to overcook it I want it nice and bright. I want the pineapple to be a nice sweet bright finish to all the savoriness and the umami in this dish. All right it looks delicious let's plate up. Well there you go friends sweet and sour pork made with our Knorr liquid seasoning. Look how easy this was I mean simple delicious high impact all your friends are going to love this dish. Thanks so much everyone for watching I hope you enjoy making sweet and sour pork at home with your family. Knorr liquid seasoning along with other Knorr products are available at your local grocery store. Make sure to visit cookwithknorr.com slash series and follow Cook with Knorr on social media and don't forget guys tune in every single week for inspiration and new recipes. I'm Jatila we'll see you later.