Cashew Sweet and Sour Pork

This easy sweet and sour pork uses common pantry ingredients and cooks up in a snap!

📝 Ingredients

• 1 pound pork tenderloin or boneless pork chops (thinly sliced)
• 1 tablespoons cooking sherry or apple juice
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch (divided)
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1/3 cup water
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup cider vinegar
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 3 tablespoons ketchup
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1/3 cup chopped cashews
• 1/4 cup green onions
• 2 teaspoons fresh ginger (minced or grated)
• 2 teaspoons fresh garlic (minced or pressed)
• 6-8 ounces snow peas (trimmed)
• 1 8- ounce can pineapple chunks (drained)

👨‍🍳 Instructions

1. 1--- Pork ---
2. 2Slice your pork. To get your pork super thin, you’ll need to partially freeze it. When it’s semi-frozen (or mostly-frozen), you can either cut it very thinly with a sharp knife or pop it into your food processor fitted with the slicing blade. It’s like magic.
3. 3Combine 1 tablespoon of the cornstarch, the sherry, and the pork. Toss well. Set aside.
4. 4--- Prep Sauce ---
5. 5Combine a tablespoon of cornstarch, water, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, and ketchup. Stir with a whisk; make sure there are no clumps with the cornstarch. Set aside.
6. 6--- Prep and Cook Stir Fry ---
7. 7Trim your snow peas if necessary. Little baby snow peas are very tender and don’t need to be trimmed, but you’ll probably have some bigger ones in there. Just snap the corners off and then tug a little to get the tough string that goes along the side of the snow pea.
8. 8If you're serving this sweet and sour pork with rice, begin cooking that so it's ready when the pork is.
9. 9Now collect everything that’s going into the stir fry next to the stove so you can access it easily. Once you start stir frying, things move fast!
10. 10Heat 1-2 tablespoons of canola oil in a large frying pan or wok over medium-high heat. Add pork and stir-fry 3 minutes. Add onions, ginger, and garlic. Stir-fry 1 minute.
11. 11Add snow peas and pineapple. Stir-fry 3 minutes more.
12. 12Whisk sauce ingredients again and add to pan. Bring to a boil. Cook 1 minute, stirring frequently.
13. 13Stir in cashews and serve over hot rice. Garnish with more cashews and green onions if you want.