Tender and Juicy Low-Cal Chinese Meatballs
Tender and Juicy Low-Cal Chinese Meatballs

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, tender and juicy low-cal chinese meatballs. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Great recipe for Tender and Juicy Low-Cal Chinese Meatballs. By cooking the meatballs slowly over a low heat (and using the residual heat), the resultant meatballs are very tender. By boiling the meatballs, you can remove the excess fat and they are healthier. How to Make Meatballs That Are Tender, Juicy, and Delicious Every Time.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have tender and juicy low-cal chinese meatballs using 26 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tender and Juicy Low-Cal Chinese Meatballs:
  1. Make ready Meatballs:
  2. Take 200 grams Pork mince (mixed with beef mince is also OK)
  3. Take 1/4 Onion (large)
  4. Take 1 dash Ginger (grated)
  5. Make ready 4 tbsp Panko
  6. Take 1 tbsp Katakuriko
  7. Get 1 Egg
  8. Get 1 tbsp Sake
  9. Prepare 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce
  10. Get 1/2 tsp Salt
  11. Prepare 1 Pepper
  12. Make ready For the sweet & hot soy sauce:
  13. Get 2 tbsp ● Soy sauce
  14. Make ready 2 tbsp ● Mirin
  15. Make ready 1/2 to 1 tablespoon ● Sugar
  16. Make ready 1 tbsp ● Sake
  17. Make ready 1 ● Umami seasoning (such as Ajinomoto)
  18. Take 100 ml ● Water
  19. Make ready For the sweet vinegar sauce:
  20. Get 2 tbsp 〇 Soy sauce
  21. Get 2 tbsp 〇 Sugar
  22. Prepare 1 tbsp 〇 Sake
  23. Take 1 tbsp 〇 Vinegar
  24. Take 100 ml 〇 Water
  25. Prepare 1 as required Katakuriko
  26. Get 2 tsp Sesame oil (or vegetable oil)

Chinese Pork meatballs are full of all of the flavors you love in Chinese food takeout. Salty, sweet, smoky, charred edges with juicy tender pork inside. Using a wooden spoon or clean hands, stir until well combined. Tender meatballs with lots of flavor are perfect for any low carb sauce.

Steps to make Tender and Juicy Low-Cal Chinese Meatballs:
  1. Combine the meatball ingredients, and mix well.
  2. Add some more panko if the mixture is too soft. The resultant meatballs taste better with a softer meatball mixture.
  3. Boil water, add salt and sake (not listed in the ingredients), and boil the meatballs. The meatball mixture is quite soft, so shape the mixture into balls right before placing them in the hot water.
  4. Look at Helpful Hints as to how to boil the meatballs. Drain the meatballs in a colander after they are cooked through.
  5. Pat dry the meatballs with kitchen paper. Coat the meatballs with katakuriko evenly. Make any size of meatballs to your taste.
  6. Heat the sesame oil in a frying pan and brown all the sides of the meatballs to allow them to have a good colour and flavour.
  7. I fry the meatballs after boiling them, but you don't need to do this. After boiling the meatballs, coat them with the sauce. In this case, thicken the sauce with katakuriko dissolved in water.
  8. After the meatballs are browned, add the sauce ingredients of your choice. Simmer slowly over a low heat to let the meatballs absorb the sauce.
  9. The katakuriko coating the meatballs thickens the sauce. Reduce the sauce to let it coat the meatballs.
  10. Once the sauce is shiny, it is ready. Garnish with the thinly sliced white part of a Japanese leek or sprinkle with sesame seeds to finish.

Using a wooden spoon or clean hands, stir until well combined. Tender meatballs with lots of flavor are perfect for any low carb sauce. Make a big batch and freeze them to use as you need them. There are a lot of ways to approach cooking the meatballs. For the most tender texture, you could poach them right in the sauce, but you'd lose out on the flavor that browning adds, and in this case, that flavor is important to me.

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