Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chinese lionhead meatballs. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chinese Lionhead Meatballs is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chinese Lionhead Meatballs is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Free UK Delivery on Eligible Orders! For the meatballs, place all of the meatball ingredients into a large bowl and stir to combine. With damp hands, take a large mound of the minced meat mixture and mould into a ball that is a little. Lion's Head Meatballs (狮子头 - shīzitóu) are large pork meatballs that are steamed/braised and served with vegetables.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have chinese lionhead meatballs using 42 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lionhead Meatballs:
- Make ready Meatballs
- Make ready ground pork
- Prepare soy sauce
- Take sugar
- Make ready Shaoxing wine
- Take water chestnuts
- Prepare panko breadcrumbs
- Get sesame seed oil
- Make ready ground ginger
- Prepare minced garlic
- Make ready water
- Get large eggs
- Get salt
- Make ready peanut oil to fry in
- Prepare Bok Choy
- Prepare bok-choy
- Prepare sesame seed oil
- Take salt
- Make ready soy sauce
- Prepare Steaming
- Prepare water
- Prepare salt
- Get Broth
- Get peanut oil you used to fry meatballs
- Get all purpose flour
- Make ready salt
- Take ground white pepper
- Make ready soy sauce
- Get chicken broth
- Take sesame seed oil
- Prepare Garnish optional
- Make ready thinly sliced scallions
- Take soy sauce
- Take rice vinegar
- Make ready roasted sesame seed oil
- Make ready honey
- Take Rice optional
- Prepare long grain rice
- Get salt
- Prepare soya sauce
- Make ready steam water with drippings from meatballs and bok-choy
- Get peanut oil used to fry meatballs
Traditionally this Shanghai casserole dish featuring oversized pork meatballs and greens is made with pork fat and cooked in a sand clay pot. The large meatballs are meant to represent a lion, and the shredded greens its mane. Lion's Head (large Chinese meatball) sometimes is known as Four-Joy Meatballs. This is a well-known holiday recipe for example Chinese New Year.
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.
Lion's Head (large Chinese meatball) sometimes is known as Four-Joy Meatballs. This is a well-known holiday recipe for example Chinese New Year. Basically this is large fried Chinese meatballs. And we are having a braised version today. Chinese pork meatballs are also called lion's head (狮子头, shi zi tou).
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