Name: Lotus Root Meatballs in Tomato Sauce
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 230g Lotus root; 200g Minced pork; 100ml oil; 15ml Cooking Wine; 5g salt; 1 piece egg; a little chopped green onion; 2 tbsp ketchup; a little Sugar; 1 tbsp starch; 15ml Soy sauce

Lotus Root Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

by Xianger Kitchen

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

Lotus root is one of our common meals. Raw food can clear heat and nourish lungs, cool blood and promote blood stasis; cooked food can invigorate the spleen and appetite, relieve diarrhea and consolidate essence. The elderly often eat lotus root, which can adjust the appetite, nourish blood and nourish the marrow, soothe the nerves and invigorate the brain, and have the effect of prolonging life. The way to eat lotus root is also diversified. You can eat lotus root and lotus root meatballs in tomato sauce. The taste is delicate and the taste is sweet and sour with a refreshing fragrance. It is quite good to come in late spring and early summer.

Lotus Root Meatballs in Tomato Sauce

1. Prepare minced pork, lotus root and eggs

2. Prepare tomato sauce, green onion and cooking wine

3. Knock an egg into the minced pork, add the cooking wine, salt, and chopped green onion, stir in a clockwise direction until it is sticky

4. Wash the lotus root, peel it and wipe it into puree

5. Pour lotus root paste into the minced pork

6. Add light soy sauce and stir well

7. Add starch and stir until it is sticky

8. Pour the oil in the hot pan, the oil temperature is 8 minutes

9. Roll out a ball with a tiger's mouth

10. Fry in a pot over medium heat until the color is golden and pick up

11. Save the base oil, add tomato sauce and boiling water to a boil

12. Then pour the lotus root meatballs into a boil, cover and turn to low heat to cook thoroughly

13. Turn to high heat and add sugar to collect the juice, then turn off the heat and bring out the pan

14. Put it into a bowl and sprinkle with chopped green onion

Tips:
1. The tomato sauce is slightly sour, and finally add white sugar to adjust the sweetness and sour taste, the taste is better
2. The tastes of each family are different, adjust according to their own tastes
3. Don't make the meatballs too big, they will be cooked easily when fried on medium heat