Name: 【shandong】sixi Meatballs
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 2g Five spice powder; 10g ginger; 10g starch; 10g Soy sauce; 1 piece egg; 1g pepper; 5g Oyster sauce; 500g pork; 10g sesame oil; Some salt; 10g Cooking Wine; 100g (water chestnuts) Horseshoe; 2s shallot; 3g Sugar; 20g Water starch; Some water; 10g oil

【shandong】sixi Meatballs

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Sixi meatballs are one of the classic Chinese traditional dishes, belonging to Shandong cuisine. It is composed of four meatballs with good color, fragrance and taste, which embodies the four great things of life, happiness, wealth, longevity and joy. It is often used as the finale in wedding banquets, birthday banquets and other banquets to take its auspicious meaning. In terms of appearance, Sixi Meatballs consist of four larger meatballs and other auxiliary materials. The practice of Sixi Meatballs is basically the same as that of Lion Head, except that Sixi Meatballs are limited to four meatballs. In Shandong Sixi Meatballs is one of the must-choices for big dinners, not only because of its auspicious meaning, but also because of its thick oil and red sauce, which is in line with the stomach of Shandong’s population and means more reunion."

【shandong】sixi Meatballs

1. Prepare the ingredients, wash the pork and peel the horseshoe

2. Minced green onion and ginger, minced horseshoe

3. Put the pork filling in a small bowl, add egg, starch, 10 grams of soy sauce, pepper, cooking wine, sesame oil, five-spice powder, salt, 5 grams of oyster sauce and mix clockwise.

4. Add chopped green onion, ginger, and horseshoe, stir clockwise

5. Weigh 4 parts of fillings of equal weight, dip both hands in water, and beat them back and forth for more than 10 times between the hands to make a full circle

6. Boil the meatballs in 80% hot oil and fry them until the surface is golden brown. Remove

7. Pour 10 grams of oil 1 in another pot, add green onion and ginger to sauté, add 120 grams of soy sauce, 10 grams of soy sauce, 15 grams of oyster sauce and cook until bubbling

8. Add water to two-thirds of the meatballs. Bring to a high heat and turn to medium-low heat and cook for 25 minutes. At this time, there is less than half of the soup remaining. Taste the taste. Add appropriate amount of salt and 3 grams of sugar to remove the meatballs.

9. Add water starch to thicken the soup

10. Thick soup, turn off the heat

11. Pour the soup on the balls, and the Sixi balls will be ready

12. Very delicious

13. Finished picture

Tips:
1. According to your preference, the side dishes in the minced meat can be used lotus root, horseshoe, shiitake mushrooms, etc.
2. Pork 2-8 fat, at most 37 fat or too greasy
3. After the meatballs are fried, they can be steamed or boiled with sauce. This is according to personal preference.
4. Do not add too much salt in the meat filling, the taste can be adjusted by the soup