Name: Sixi Meatballs
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 500g Minced meat; 50g Wheat germ; 150g Water chestnuts; 1 clove Aniseed; 1 piece egg; 2 tablets ginger; 15ml Cooking Wine; 20ml Soy sauce; 20g starch; 5g Sugar; 15 capsules pepper; 10g salt; 15ml Oyster sauce

Sixi Meatballs

by Scorpion in Autumn (from Tencent.)

4.6 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

10m

Serving

Sixi meatballs are one of the classic traditional dishes of the Han nationality, belonging to Henan 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 of New Year's Eve dinners, wedding banquets, birthday banquets and other banquets to take its auspicious meaning. This Sixi meatball is added with the ingredients of wheat germ, which is the root of wheat's life and the most nutritious part of wheat. Family reunion on holidays cannot avoid excessive intake of oil, wheat germ can relieve it, allowing people to increase some crude fiber.

Sixi Meatballs

1. Soak the sliced ginger, pepper and aniseed in hot water. Peel and chop water chestnuts.

2. Add eggs, 10 grams of starch, cooking wine, wheat germ, and 5 grams of salt to the minced meat and stir vigorously in the same direction.

3. Add the chopped water chestnuts to the minced meat and stir well.

4. Gradually add the pepper water to the meat and stir. The meatballs made in this way are very tender inside.

5. Use disposable gloves to scoop a large spoonful of minced meat, knead it into a ball and gently tap it back and forth between the palms of your hands to expel the internal air. This makes the ball firmer. All knead into equal-sized meatballs. (This is the amount of 8)

6. I used an air fryer this time, it doesn’t need to be fried, it’s healthier. Put it in the fryer, 160 degrees for 15 minutes.

7. When the time is up, pull out the fried blue, turn the balls over and set them for 10 minutes. You see, even if the oil is not drained, there is a lot of oil oozing out on the oil paper.

8. Make water in a pot, add a little salt, and blanch the broccoli.

9. In a separate pot, add the right amount of hot water, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, sugar and half a bowl of pepper water to boil, put the fried meatballs in it and cook on low heat until the taste is removed.

10. The remaining soup is thickened with water starch and collected.

11. Pour on the meatballs and put them on a plate. Use blanched broccoli around the meatballs.

Tips:
1. The water chestnuts are put into the meatballs, and every bite can be eaten with a crispy texture, without feeling greasy at all.
2. Fried meatballs in an air fryer will be healthier and can reduce excessive fat intake.