Recipe: how to cook Chinese food, Stewed Meatball

4 min readSep 10, 2018

Stewed Meatball is a famous traditional dish in Jiangsu Province, belonging to Huaiyang cuisine. It is very popular.

The ingredients are basically the same with the braised meatball_Braised Pork Ball in Brown Sauce. And the prepare uncooked meatball process is the same as well.

Recipe: how to cook Chinese food, Meatball_Braised Pork Ball in Brown Sauce

Braised Pork Ball in Brown Sauce is a famous Huaiyang cuisine. The meatball is soft and delicious. The meat should be…

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INGREDIENTS:

300g pork belly
45g winter bamboo
450ml chicken stock
1 egg white
1 small ginger
1 spring onion
1 teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cornstarch
1.5 teaspoon cooking wine
⅓ teaspoon white pepper powder
3 Chinese cabbage leaves
several bok choy
water

INSTRUCTIONS:

Step 1: prepare ingredients.

Step 2: wash the Chinese cabbage and cut. the natural curvature of the bottom of the cabbage is used to hold the meatball, so according to the size of your cooker, cut the length of the cabbage section.

Step 3: dice the winter bamboo.

Step 4: mince the ginger.

Step 5: mince the spring onion stalk.

Step 6: mix the minced ginger and spring onion stalk with 60ml water.

Step 7: dice the meat to pomegranate seed size.

Step 8: chop several more times to increase the stickiness. don’t chop too fine.

Step 9: mix evenly with salt, sugar, cooking wine, white pepper powder, egg white and cornstarch.

Step 10: mix with the winter bamboo. after the mince being sticky, put ginger, spring onion and water, stir in the same direction, absorb the water fully. The amount of onion ginger water is controlled according to the stickness of the meat (not pours all at once), until can grab a meatball.