Are you ready for, better than your favorite Chinese Restaurants takeout, Easy Baked Sweet and Sour Pork Recipe?! You’ll love this easy, family friendly recipe with simple ingredients!
If you love this recipe be sure to try our Baked Sweet and Sour Chicken. I actually prefer our recipe to restaurant take-out because I know exactly what ingredients are going into it and I don’t feel sick after eating it like I do when I eat traditional fried take-out.
If you want to enjoy a full Asian-inspired night at home, eat this Sweet and Sour Pork with our Baked Crab Rangoons, Baked Veggie Egg Rolls and Chicken Fried Rice easy recipes!
Ingredients needed to make Easy Baked Sweet and Sour Pork:
- Vegetable oil
- Boneless Pork tenderloin roast
- Cornstarch
- Onion
- Bell peppers
- Pineapple chunks, reserve juice
- Salt and pepper
- Sugar
- Apple cider vinegar
- Ketchup
- Soy sauce
- Garlic salt
- Cooked white rice
How to make Easy Baked Sweet and Sour Pork:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.
- Cut pork roast into 1-inch pieces and place in a gallon sized Ziploc bag.
- Pour corn starch into Ziploc bag, zip closed and shake until pork is evenly coated with cornstarch.
- Carefully add pork a few pieces at a time to hot oil, let cook for 2-3 minutes, remove and place on a plate covered with a paper towel to absorb excess oil. Repeat until all pork has been cooked in oil.
- Spray a 9 x 13 inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray and spread crispy pork in the bottom.
- Sprinkle on chopped onion, green bell pepper, and pineapple chunks. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Pour pineapple juice from pineapple chunks into a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in sugar, apple cider vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce and garlic salt.
- Bring to a boil and pour the tangy sauce over the pork, vegetables and pineapple. Gently stir to combine.
- Place pan in oven for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes to continually coat pork in sweet and sour sauce.
- Remove from oven and serve over rice.We like to top ours with chopped green onions and sesame seeds.
- Store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge. Reheat leftovers in the Air Fryer.
Other Asian Inspired Dishes:
- STICKY ASIAN RIBS (IN THE OVEN) RECIPE
- BEEF AND BROCCOLI RECIPE
- SLOW COOKER KOREAN BEEF TACOS RECIPE
- SLOW COOKER MONGOLIAN BEEF RECIPE
- INSTANT POT HONEY SESAME CHICKEN RECIPE
- RAMEN NOODLE ORIENTAL CHICKEN SALAD RECIPE
- SLOW COOKER TERIYAKI CHICKEN AND STIR FRY VEGGIES RECIPE
- INSTANT POT SWEET AND SOUR MEATBALLS RECIPE
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Easy Baked Sweet and Sour Pork Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups vegetable oil, For frying only
- 2 pounds boneless pork loin roast
- 1 cup cornstarch
- 1 onion, cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 green bell pepper, cut into bite sized pieces
- 20 ounces pineapple chunks, reserve juice
- to taste salt and pepper
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup ketchup
- 1 Tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 6 cups cooked rice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Heat vegetable oil in a large pot over medium-high heat.
- Cut pork roast into 1-inch pieces and place in a gallon sized Ziploc bag.
- Pour cornstarch into Ziploc bag, zip closed and shake until pork is evenly coated with cornstarch.
- Carefully add pork a few pieces at a time to hot oil, let cook for 2-3 minutes, remove and place on a plate covered with a paper towel to absorb excess oil. Repeat until all pork has been cooked in oil.
- Spray a 9 x 13 inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray and spread pork in the bottom.
- Sprinkle on chopped onion, green pepper, and pineapple chunks. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Pour pineapple juice from pineapple chunks into a saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in sugar, apple cider vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce and garlic salt.
- Bring to a boil and pour over the pork, vegetables and pineapple. Gently stir to combine.
- Place pan in oven for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes to continually coat pork in sauce.
- Remove from oven and serve over rice.
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