Subuta - Sweet and Sour Pork

Ingredients

• 4 shiitake mushrooms
• 7oz. boiled bamboo shoot
• 1 carrot
• 1/2 onion
• 1 green pepper
• 1 pound pork tenderloin
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsps potato starch (or corn starch)
• *Vegetable oil for frying

  For Sauce:

• 1 cup soup stock
• 3 tbsp soysauce
• 3 tbsps rice wine vinegar
• 4 tbsps sugar
• 1 tbsp ketchup
• 3 tbsps water
• 3 tbsps potato starch (or corn starch)

Method

• Cut pork into bite-sized cubes and put in a bowl.
• Pour 1 tbsp soysauce over pork cubes and set aside.
• Cut onion, bamboo shoot, carrot, green pepper, shiitake mushrooms into bite-sized pieces.
• Boil carrot for a few minutes until soften.
• Dust seasoned pork with starch.
• Heat oil to 350F and deep-fry pork until cooked.
• Mix soup stock, sugar, ketchup, soysauce, and rice wine vinegar in a bowl.
• Stir-fry carrot, green pepper, bamboo shoot, shiitake, onion in a large frying pan or a wok.
• Add fried pork in the pan.
• Pour mixed seasoning in the pan and bring to a boil.
• Add mixture of water and starch in the pan and stir quickly.
• Remove from the heat. 

                 Serve with plain rice or noodles.