Easy Chinese Meatballs
Easy Chinese meatballs with spicy dipping sauce
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 2 cups minced pork
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 green onion (finely chopped)
- 1/2 tablespoon finely chopped ginger
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch (can be replaced by one large egg white)
- water or chicken stock for boiling
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- salt as needed
- 1 teaspoon Chinese five spice powder
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped green onion or more as needed
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped coriander or more as needed (optional)
- 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon sesame oil
- 1 garlic clove (smashed)
- salt as needed
- 2 fresh Thai chili peppers (cut into small circles)
- 2 tablespoons stock for boiling the meatballs
Instructions
- 1
In a large mixing bowl, mix ground pork with around 1 tablespoon. Stir in one direction until the water is well absorbed by the ground pork.
- 2
Add chopped green onion, ginger, cornstarch and other seasonings. Keep stirring in one direction around 2 to 3 minutes until the mixture becomes very sticky. Reset for around 5 minutes. Then stir once again.
- 3
Take one portion out and shape to a ball. Pat several times between two hands.
- 4
Bring around half full water in a deep pot to a boiling, and then slide the meatballs in. Gently move them and use high fire to bring the water to a boiling again and straight after the boiling, slow the fire to medium fire so the balls will be not destroyed by over-strong fire.
- 5
Transfer out and
- 6
In a small bowl, add all the seasoning and then scoop meatball stock and pour to the dipping sauce bowl to tune the seasonings.
- 7
Decorate with coriander and then serve with dipping sauce.