15 Minute Sweet and Sour Pork
Life with children can be hectic at the best of times which can often mean last minute thrown together meals or worse, having to order out. It’s nice to have a few fall back dinners in your back pocket as go-to meals when you are in a rush or just don’t feel like slaving over a stove for a long period of time.
This recipe for Sweet and Sour Pork is beyond quick and easy thanks to Maple Leaf® Country Kitchen® Smoked Ham. Since the ham is already cooked it does not take a lot of cook time when incorporated into tasty recipes like this. Forget takeout, I love how complex the flavours are in this dish.
15 Minute Sweet and Sour Pork
Ingredients:
1 Tbsp Olive oil
1 Maple Leaf® Country Kitchen® Smoked Ham, cut into 1″ cubes
2 Red peppers, cut into 1” pieces
1 medium onion, chopped
1 (8 ounce) Can pineapple chunks, juice reserved
1 cup water
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup ketchup
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 Tbsp cornstarch
Directions:
Whisk together cornstarch with soy sauce in a medium sized bowl until smooth then whisk in water, salt, brown sugar, vinegar, and ketchup then set aside.
Heat oil in a wok over medium-high heat.
Stir-fry ham, red pepper and onion until vegetables are just tender crisp.
Add pineapple chunks and cook for 2 minutes more.
Stir sauce into ham and vegetable mixture then bring to a boil and cook for 1-2 minutes or until the sauce thickens.
Serve hot over Rice or Noodles.
15 Minute Sweet and Sour Pork
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 Maple Leaf® Country Kitchen® Smoked Ham, cut into 1" cubes
- 2 Red peppers, cut into 1” pieces
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 Can pineapple chunks, 8 ounce, juice reserved
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup ketchup
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp cornstarch
Instructions
- Whisk together cornstarch with soy sauce in a medium sized bowl until smooth then whisk in water, salt, brown sugar, vinegar, and ketchup then set aside.
- Heat oil in a wok over medium-high heat.
- Stir-fry ham, red pepper and onion until vegetables are just tender crisp.
- Add pineapple chunks and cook for 2 minutes more.
- Stir sauce into ham and vegetable mixture then bring to a boil and cook for 1-2 minutes or until the sauce thickens.
- Serve hot over Rice.
Nutrition Information:
Serving Size:
1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
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This is a good recipe to use up those leftovers that are in the fridge. add pineapple and you are all set
This looks delicious and so colorful, too! I love sweet & sour!
I never thought to make sweet and sour pork with ham. What a great idea and time saver!
I might have to try this, it looks really good and easy!
What a great (and quick) recipe! Pinning for later! Thanks for sharing!
Oh man, I wish I had some of that for dinner tonite. It sounds delicious.
I don’t eat pork, but this looks tasty. I would sub with chicken 🙂
These look amazing and easy enough to make.
Oooo I’ve never thought about making it with ham. Sounds delicious!
Yum! I love quick and easy dinners!
This sounds so good. I love that it is ready so quick. This is perfect for a busy week night!
Hmmm, looks yummy! I think I will try the ham in a sweet and sour dinner 🙂
Now this looks like my kind of dinner! It looks amazing! I bet its very tasty!
I love sweet and sour dishes. I’ve never had it with ham. It sounds very good and easy to make. Thanks for sharing.
Me either. I usually eat them with chicken.
This would make anyone hungry,wow it just looks so good.Trying this on the weekend
This looks delicious, I find that pork and pineapple go very well together!
That looks like a great meal. And it looks healthy too!
That looks super quick and easy to throw together!
That is what I like about it too. I love anything I can make really quick.
My mouth waters looking at this!! Pinned! Thank you so much girlie!
That looks great! Only 15 minutes?
Yep, it’s super quick – depending on how quick you are at prep of course! 🙂
I love quick and easy meals.
I thought that making this would be much more complicated and take longer. This is perfect for a weeknight supper!
You cheated! I don’t see any rice or noodles! 😉
haha! Noodles take like 10 minutes to cook and rice only bumps it by 5 minutes. (Unless there is some kind of extra processed rice that takes less?!)
I don’t eat very much pork due to lack of flavor but this is full of flavor. I can definitely see myself fixing this for my family.
That looks like a super easy meal to throw together, especially with back-to-school a lot of us moms don’t have the time we used too with homework, showers and other activities to get done.
That looks delicious and so easy to make! I’ll have to save this to try for later.
This sounds and looks really good, also love that it is a quick to make meal.
Anything I can do in 15 minutes has my seal of approval. I’m not much of a pork fan but hubby is so he may enjoy this. Thanks for the recipe.
I love sweet and sour pork and this seems like a simple but yet delicious recipe. I would love mine over brown rice.
Oooh, this is awesome! I love sweet and sour pork but haven’t had it in AGES!
My other half loves anything sweet and sour – I will have to try and whip this up for him one day 🙂 x
That looks so yummy will have to try it soon.
I have some left over ham in the refrigerator and I didn’t know what to use it for. This would be the perfect recipe. Thank you for sharing it.
This looks so easy! I don’t eat or cook with pork but I bet this would be great with cubes of chicken.
Looks amazing. I bet it makes the perfect family dinner.
Yum This looks delicious! Making it with ham sounds uber simple thanks!
This looks perfect for upcoming school year- when you need a meal in a pinch!
I love quick and easy meals! I don’t like to spend a lot of time in the kitchen but I am committed to feeding my family healthy meals so I’m all over quick recipes!
Tried this and hubby says he would love to see this served once a week………….its a hit
I don’t eat pork but my dad would absolutely love this recipe.
Just love those 15 minute meals
Thanks for sharing this recipe. What a great simple and quick recipe for sweet and sour pork.
This recipe is so quick to make I love it
Have this for dinner tonight,its a cool day
I usually have sweet and sour chicken. I will have to try this. Thank you for sharing!
I love sweet and sour anything really. I always eat mine with rice, I’ve never thought of eating it with noodles but why not indeed. I’ve never used ketchup in the sauce though, I’ll have to try that, thanks for sharing 🙂
Incredible to have such a delicious dish ready in fifteen minutes
This 15 minute sweet and sour pork looks so good and I think it would be absolutely delicious served over rice, noodles or potatoes. Thank you for this recipe.
Thank you so much for this recipe. I have been thinking of cooking pork ribs in my slow cooker and I think you sweet and sour ingredients for your recipe would be fine for the slow cooker ribs. It seems to be a wonderful combination of flavors.
I love sweet and sour anything really, pork, chicken, shrimp and this is a lovely quick recipe, thanks so much for sharing. 🙂
I made this recipe a few weeks ago. It is THE best pineapple ham recipe I’ve EVER tasted! That sauce!!!!! Over rice with fresh steamed veggies, can’t go wrong! Thanks Frugal mom! (And Canadian like me!❤️)