Longyou Meatballs
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Ingredients: The pork must be fat. It doesn't matter if you have more fat. Wash and peel. Cut the lean meat into cubes less than 1 cm. The fat can be slightly larger, but don’t save trouble and use minced meat instead.
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Ingredients: Wash the radish and cut it into cubes. You don't need to peel it. Boil in a pot and cook for about 2 minutes, remove the pot to control the moisture, and place it in a container with the raw pork
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Half a dried lotus leaf, soak in hot water to soften. In order to save money, it can be soaked in hot water of blanched radishes, and cover the pot for about 10 minutes. If you don’t have dried lotus leaves at home, you can use gauze or soft soaked zong leaves instead
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Ingredients: sweet potato starch This is the most critical step. Whether the meatballs are made well or not depends on this step. I use authentic sweet potato starch made at home, and then mix the pork and radish with starch. The approximate ratio is 1:1:2. One bowl of pork and one bowl of radish correspond to two bowls of starch. Be careful not to pour all the starch down, add soy sauce and starch while stirring, without adding salt and MSG. Dear friends, don’t be too entangled with this ratio. The starch can be added less, as long as it is stirred until it becomes a thin paste, and it will hang up when you pick it up with your hands.
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Spread the soaked lotus leaves on the steamer, use scissors to cut off the excess, and then use a spoon to put the mixed meatballs one by one. After steaming for about half an hour, the delicious Longyou meatballs can be out of the pot. . Smell the fragrance, eat the scent
Tips:
1. If you don’t like to eat radish, you can use winter melon instead of radish. Peel and dice winter melon. After blanching, be sure to pinch off excess water, because winter melon has a high water content;
2. The key is to use sweet potato starch. You must buy good sweet potato starch. If you buy sweet potato starch mixed with other powders, the meatballs will have a bad taste. About 1 catty of meat and half a catty of radish is enough for 4 to 5 people. If you can’t finish it, you can slice it and stir-fry with vegetables or cook it in soup. It is also delicious;
3. Old soy sauce is not easy to use, and the finished product is too dark and unsightly.
