Pearl meatballs

Overview

Pearl meatballs are meatballs wrapped with a layer of glutinous rice and steamed. After steaming, they look as white as pearls, hence the name pearl meatballs. After the meatballs are steamed, they are soft, glutinous and delicious, and the beads are so round that you can't bear to eat them with chopsticks.

Tags

• home cooking
• private kitchen
• meat dishes
• chicken essence
• cornstarch
• glutinous rice
• light soy sauce
• mushrooms
• pork
• ginger
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Wash the glutinous rice and soak it in water for more than 2 hours in advance.

   

2. 2 Chop the fat and lean pork into minced meat.

   

3. 3 Add appropriate amount of salt, cornstarch and ginger.

   

4. 4 Then add a little chicken essence and light soy sauce according to personal taste.

   

5. 5 Use chopsticks to beat in one direction until smooth. Marinate for half an hour.

   

6. 6 Soak the mushrooms in warm water at 40 degrees Celsius, wash and cut into sections, then put them into a food processor and beat into fine pieces.

   

7. 7 Pour the mushrooms into the marinated meat filling and mix well.

   

8. 8 Take out the soaked glutinous rice and drain thoroughly.

   

9. 9 Shape the marinated meat into meatballs with your hands.

   

10. 10 Place the meatballs in the glutinous rice and roll them around so that the outside of the meatballs is evenly covered with a layer of glutinous rice. Gently press the surface with your hands so that part of the glutinous rice can be pressed into the meat filling.

    

11. 11 Put the prepared meatballs into the steamer, boil water in the pot, and steam over high heat for about 15 minutes.

    

12. 12 Finished product picture 1.

    

13. 13 Finished product picture 2.

    

14. 14 Finished product picture 3.