How To Cook Sweet And Sour Spare Ribs

Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs, is a mouth-watering and goes-great-with-cold-beer type of dish. We searched Shanghai to bring you three of the best Tangcu Paigu dishes in town. Prepare to lick your fingers in delight.Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs epitomizes the sweet and sour dishes of China. It is made from fresh pork ribs, which appear shiny and red after being cooked. It originated in Wuxi City of Jiangsu Province and has been popular in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Sichuan provinces.

Ingredients:
spare ribs 500 g
1 egg
green onion sections
cooking wine
soy sauce
salt
white vinegar
cornstarch
white sugar
wheat flour

Note: the amount of the ingredients especially the seasonings listed above can be appropriately used according to one's personal taste.

Step 1: Fill a wok with half-full of water and turn on the heat. Slowly add the spare rib sections, and cover them. Once the water is boiling, add in the cooking wine. Boil for 15-20 minutes until the spare rib sections is 70% cooked. Remove them to a colander, and place in a small basin. Add the salt, white vinegar and wheat flour. Crack the egg into it and stir well with a spatula or chopsticks. Let it marinate for 10-15 minutes.

Step 2: In another bowl or small basin combine the white sugar, white vinegar, cooking wine, soy sauce, and cornstarch. Stir well.

Step 3: Place a wok over high heat until hot. Add some coooking oil, and add in the processed spare ribs one by one with chopsticks. Turn off the fire and remove them when they look yellowish-white and put them in a colander quickly. Remove the broken bits, and add the fried spare ribs back in to be fired again when the temperature of the oil in the wok is heated back up to 70 centigrade (158 Fahrenheit). Fry the spare ribs well until they turn golden. Then, remove them from the wok.

Step 4: Leave some cooking oil in the wok, swirling to coat the sides. Add in the green onion sections and prepared seasoning sauce from step 2, and stir-fry over high heat for about 20 seconds. Then, add in the fried spare ribs and fry and stew for 2-3 minutes over high heat until the seasoning sauce coats the outside skin of the fried spare ribs.

Step 5: Now, turn off the fire, pick the delicious sweet and sour spare ribs out of the wok, and serve. A plate of delicious sweet and sour spare ribs is ready for you to enjoy.

Sweet and Sour Spare Ribs, is a mouth-watering and goes-great-with-cold-beer type of dish. We searched Shanghai to bring you three of the best Tangcu Paigu dishes in town. Prepare to lick your fingers in delight.