【Jiangsu】Braised Pork Balls (Sixth of the Six Big Bowls in Hometown)

Overview

Sticky rice meatballs, this is a very important dish. In our hometown, this dish is served on everything from birthdays to wedding banquets. The Chinese New Year is definitely indispensable, and housewives will treat this as a very important thing and prepare specially. When I was young, when someone invited me to a banquet, the adults would say: Go to that person’s house to eat Tuozi (glutinous rice and meatballs). It shows that this is the key part of the banquet. When I was a little girl, my mother told me more than once that making meatballs and rolling dumplings (glutinous rice balls) were the test questions that my mother-in-law had to take for a new daughter-in-law a long time ago. I was noncommittal and ran away after hearing it as a joke... After work, one year during the Chinese New Year, my mother was making meatballs again, and my father called me over seriously. I asked him what he was doing. He asked me to watch on the side and learn it carefully. I was not as easygoing as I am now, I was a bit rebellious and willful. I said: I don’t need to learn, I won’t be around the kitchen anymore. I remember my father was very angry at that time! Later, I don’t know how I learned it all. Even many times, my mother often calls me to ask me while she is making something...

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• su cai
• chicken essence
• cooking wine
• edible oil
• egg
• glutinous rice
• meat filling
• onions
• starch
• ginger
• pepper
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare raw materials: meat filling, glutinous rice, eggs, onion and ginger.

   

2. 2 Add ginger juice, cooking wine, and pepper to the meat filling to remove the fishy smell.

   

3. 3 Then add salt and chicken essence to taste.

   

4. 4 Crack the eggs in.

   

5. 5 Chop the green onions into fine pieces.

   

6. 6 Add the chopped green onions to the meat filling and stir evenly.

   

7. 7 Add some more starch.

   

8. 8 Let the cooked glutinous rice cool and then add it to the meat filling and stir evenly. (You can drain the water and put it in again)

   

9. 9 After the rice is put in, stir well and pour in the cooking oil.

   

10. 10 Heat a pan with oil at 60-70% heat, put the meatball embryos in and deep-fry until the surface is golden brown.

    

11. 11 Leave a little base oil in the pot, sauté the onions and ginger until fragrant, add oyster sauce, light soy sauce, braised sauce, sugar, add a little water, add the meatballs and bring to a boil to reduce the juice, then add a little chicken essence and remove from the pot.