Sixi meatballs
Overview
How to cook Sixi meatballs at home
Tags
- hot dishes
- shandong cuisine
- autumn recipes
- banquet dishes
- full banquet of manchu and han dynasties
- cinnamon
- cooking wine
- dried chili pepper
- egg
- ginger and green onion
- lettuce
- light soy sauce
- minced pork
- oil and salt
- oyster sauce
- quail eggs
- red yeast rice
- rock sugar
- star anise
- water chestnut
- water starch
- carrot
- fragrant leaves
- pepper
Ingredients
Steps
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Add an appropriate amount of 1 egg, salt, minced ginger, pepper and starch to the minced meat, and stir vigorously in one direction;
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Add an appropriate amount of ground water chestnuts and stir in the same direction;
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Then beat the meat filling with your hands to make it firmer;
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Put a bowl of water next to it, take out a meat ball, put a cooked quail egg in the middle, and wrap it well;
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Pour the left hand into the right hand and keep turning it around. If the middle is a little sticky, you can put some water on it with your hands until it forms a smooth ball;
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Heat oil in a pot. When it is 60-70% hot, add the freshly formed meatballs and fry them;
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Fry the meatballs until the surface is golden brown and take them out;
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Put a little oil in the pot, add onion, ginger, star anise, cinnamon and bay leaves and stir-fry;
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Stir-fry until fragrant and add the freshly fried meatballs;
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Then add an appropriate amount of boiling water, light soy sauce, cooking wine and a little red yeast rice;
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Bring to a boil over high heat, cover, turn to low heat, and cook for thirty minutes;
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Remove large pieces of ginger, onion, garlic, aniseed and other debris;
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Add a little oyster sauce, turn on high heat, remove the meatballs after the juice is reduced;
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After the juice is reduced over high heat, remove the meatballs and add an appropriate amount of water starch to the remaining soup to thicken it;
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Pour the gravy over the meatballs;
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Finally, add some carrots shaped like copper coins to garnish.