Nanjian meatballs

By BlancheSteuber

Nanjian meatballs
Nanjian meatballs were once an official dish in Zhili. Legend has it that when Yuan Shikai was the governor of Zhili, he made the round meatballs into flat chess pieces in order to avoid the word "Yuan" in official banquets. It is named "Nanjian meatballs". This dish belongs to an innovative cuisine-five-fang cuisine. The so-called "five-fang cuisine" refers to such a new cuisine that gathers the five-fang cuisines in the southeast, northwest, and the strengths of hundreds of families.

Recipe Recommendations

  • pig lean meat 500g
  • eggs one
  • starch appropriate amount
  • sesame oil appropriate amount
  • MSG appropriate amount
  • sugar appropriate amount
  • salt appropriate amount
  • soy sauce appropriate amount
  • soup appropriate amount
  • cooking wine appropriate amount

Steps for Nanjian meatballs

  • Make  step 0
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    500g of lean pork.
  • Make  step 1
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    Wash the meat and chop it into velvet.
  • Make  step 2
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    One egg.
  • Make  step 3
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    Starch.
  • Make  step 4
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    Put the meat paste in a container and add the egg white and stir well.
  • Make  step 5
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    Stir well the meat filling with the egg white, then add the starch and stir well.
  • Make  step 6
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    Heat the frying pan and pour the base oil.
  • Make  step 7
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    When the oil temperature is 3- 40% hot, grab the meat paste with one hand and squeeze it into a round shape (similar to the size of meatballs), scoop it up with a spoon, place it in the pan, and cook it one by one.
  • Make  step 8
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    Make the meatballs and use a shovel to flatten them slightly in the pan and fry them over low heat until golden brown on both sides.
  • Make  step 9
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    Remove the meatballs fried until golden brown and place them on a plate for later use.
  • Make  step 10
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    Take another pot and heat until it is ready, add chopped green onions and ginger and fry until fragrant.
  • Make  step 11
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    After frying the onions and ginger until fragrant, remove the oil, cook the cooking wine, add soup, soy sauce, salt, sugar, and monosodium glutamate to boil.
  • Make  step 12
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    After the soup is boiled, add the previously fried meatballs, boil the pot again, turn to low heat to taste.
  • Make  step 13
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    Finally, turn to high heat to collect the juice, thicken it, and pour sesame oil on it.
  • Make  step 14
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    Look at the finished product.