Pearl Yuanzi

Overview

My daughter didn’t like eating meat when she was a child. She always found lean meat to be cumbersome for her teeth. So I chopped the meat and made it into meatballs. Then I wrapped the outside with glutinous rice. After steaming, the glutinous rice was crystal clear and the children loved it!

Tags

• hot dishes
• home cooking
• hubei cuisine
• glutinous rice
• light soy sauce
• lotus root
• pork belly
• starch
• ginger
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Soak the glutinous rice in cold water 6 hours in advance.

   

2. 2 Peel the pork belly, wash and chop into mince.

   

3. 3 Chop lotus root and ginger into small pieces.

   

4. 4 Add the minced meat, lotus root and ginger with salt, light soy sauce and starch and stir in one direction.

   

5. 5 Shape the minced meat into balls with your hands.

   

6. 6 Put the meatballs into the soaked glutinous rice, and roll the meatballs to coat them with the glutinous rice.

   

7. 7 Line the cage with oiled paper and place the meatballs in it.

   

8. 8 Place the basket into a steamer and steam for 20 minutes.