Chinese Meats Recipes - Pork Meat Balls Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 oz. pork (about 1/4 of it fat)

• 1 dessertspoon canned water chestnuts

• 1 dessertspoon canned bamboo shoots

• pinch each salt, sugar and Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.)

• 1 teaspoon beaten egg

• 1 tablespoon self-raising flour

• peanut oil

• parsley sprigs

Batter

• 2 tablespoons self-raising flour

• scant 1/4 pint (U.S. 1/2 cup) water

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Method:

1. Finely chop the pork, water chestnuts and bamboo shoots.

2. Add the seasonings and the beaten egg. Having worked the mixture well together,  throw it down on the table as you would when making dough in order to get every thing well combined.

3. Divide into 5-6 pieces and roll each into a neat ball beaten the palms of the hands.

4. Turn the balls in the flour and then in a thin batter made with the flour and the water. Leave to rest for a few minutes. Get the oil fairly hot.

5. As the meat is raw and has to be cooked through the oil should not be so hot that it browns the surface of the balls too quickly.

6. Dip a spoon in the oil and then use it to transfer each ball to the oil. After 8 minutes, raise the heat to brown the balls. Lift out ad drain the balls.

7. Place them in a heated serving dish and garnish them with sprigs of parsley.