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Glutinous Rice and Shiitake Mushroom Meatballs

Glutinous Rice and Shiitake Mushroom Meatballs

Juicy steamed pork meatballs studded with shiitake and scallion, bound with egg and aromatics and coated in glutinous rice that turns pearled and tender after steaming.

Instructions

  1. 1
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    Clean the shiitake mushrooms, scallions, and ginger.

  2. 2
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    Clean the meat and grind it into minced meat using a meat grinder.

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    Cut the green onions, ginger, and shiitake mushrooms into small pieces and also grind them using a meat grinder.

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    Cut the white part of the green onions into small sections, slice the ginger, and add half a bowl of water to make scallion-ginger water.

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    Add a small amount of salt, chicken bouillon, Chinese five-spice powder, Sichuan pepper powder, oyster sauce, white sugar, eggs, light soy sauce, and dark soy sauce.

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    Pour oil into the pan, let the oil smoke, and pour it over the minced meat.

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    Add scallion and ginger water in three separate batches.

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    Stir evenly in one direction, and the filling will be ready.

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    Wash the glutinous rice thoroughly and soak it in clean water for 4 hours, then gently crush it by hand and it will be ready.

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    Form the ground meat into balls the size of ping-pong balls.

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    Coat with glutinous rice, garnish with goji berries on top, and steam for 40 minutes.

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    Off the stove.

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    The glutinous rice balls are soaked in rich broth, salty, savory, and sticky, truly satisfying with every bite.

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Ingredients

Main Ingredients

  • glutinous rice
    to taste
  • hind leg meat
    500g
  • shiitake mushroom
    2 piece
  • Ginger
    1 piece
  • Egg
    1 piece
  • Sichuan pepper powder
    1 spoon
  • Thirteen Spices
    1 spoon

Auxiliary Ingredients

  • scallion
    3 pieces

Seasonings

  • Salt
    a pinch
  • light soy sauce
    2 spoon
  • dark soy sauce
    1/2 tbsp
  • Oyster sauce
    1 spoon
  • white sugar
    a pinch
  • chicken essence
    a pinch
  • Peanut oil
    2 spoon
  • Sesame oil
    1 spoon