Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chinese lionhead meatballs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
To serve Lion's head meatballs, serve each meatball on a small plate surrounded by the greens, or in soup bowls with some of the bok choy and broth. You can also thicken some of the broth with a cornstarch and water thickener and pour over the meatballs. Lion's Head (large Chinese meatball) sometimes is known as Four-Joy Meatballs.
Chinese Lionhead Meatballs is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Chinese Lionhead Meatballs is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chinese lionhead meatballs using 42 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lionhead Meatballs:
- Prepare Meatballs
- Take 1 pound ground pork
- Get 3 tablespoons soy sauce
- Take 1-1/2 tablespoon sugar
- Make ready 1 tablespoons Shaoxing wine
- Prepare 8 ounces water chestnuts
- Make ready 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
- Make ready 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- Get 1 tablespoon minced garlic
- Get 2 tablespoons water
- Take 3 large eggs
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 cup peanut oil to fry in
- Take Bok Choy
- Take 1-1/2 pound bok-choy
- Get 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Prepare Steaming
- Prepare 1 quart water
- Get 1 tablespoon salt
- Get Broth
- Make ready 1/4 cup peanut oil you used to fry meatballs
- Take 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- Get 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
- Make ready 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- Take 1-1/2 pints chicken broth
- Take 1 splash sesame seed oil
- Make ready Garnish optional
- Take 1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions
- Get 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- Get 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
- Make ready 1 splash roasted sesame seed oil
- Take 1 teaspoon honey
- Get Rice optional
- Make ready 1 cup long grain rice
- Get To taste salt
- Take 2 tablespoons soya sauce
- Make ready 2 cup steam water with drippings from meatballs and bok-choy
- Take 1/4 cup peanut oil used to fry meatballs
They feature tender, moist, and light meatballs with a savory taste. This dish is a staple food for my family, because it's quite easy to cook in big batches and is so comforting to enjoy any time. Eating the savory meatballs with rice is as addictive as eating a. Lion's Head Meatball Recipe Instructions To make the meatballs: Make sure to find fatty ground pork.
Instructions to make Chinese Lionhead Meatballs:
- Mix the meatball ingredients. It may be a bit runny if so add a little more panko breadcrumbs. If to hard add a little water.
- Heat the oil. Form the meatballs and fry the meatballs in the oil. The meatballs will be just sticky but firm enough to form. Get the water boiling in the steamer so it will be ready to steam. Get a good crust on the outside of the meatballs. No need to get the meatballs done, that will happen when you steam it.
- Wash the bok-choy very carefully separate the stalks/ribs.
- If you are using baby bok-choy just trim the ends. If using bigger bok-choy cut the big parts of the stalks into small portions. Coat the bok-choy with sesame seed oil, soya sauce, and salt. Let sit and marinate for 10 minutes. Steam the bok-choy with the fried meatballs for 30-40 minutes.
- In the pot with the flour mixture add and reduce the chicken broth to half. When the bok-choy and meatballs are done dip into bowls or plates, and add some of the broth.
- Slice the scallions and mash gently with a fork to separate the rings. Add to a bowl with soya sauce, honey, sesame oil, and vinegar serve over the top as an option, or just serve with meatballs over the top of rice, and bok-choy with the sauce. I hope you enjoy!!!
- Add oil to pot and sauté the rice. Add 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and splash of sesame seed oil. The water should still be hot.
- Measure out 2 cups and add to the sauteeing rice. Bring to a boil and simmer. Add the rest of the soya sauce.
- When craters form cover and turn off the heat and let rest covered and undisturbed for 20 minutes. Fluff with a utensil and serve.
Meatballs were good but not 'mouth-watering' or even close. And it was a lot of work with some exotic ingredients that will unlikely be used again before having to be thrown away. Dish was tasty enough (tho a bit salty.more brown sugar?) but won't make again for those reasons. It is called Lion Head meatballs because, once cooked, the meatballs are surrounded by Chinese cabbage, and the meatball is said to resemble the head of the lion, while the long pieces of cabbage. Using a metal ladle, carefully lower each meatball into the oil and spoon some of the oil over the meatballs.
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