Easiest Way to Cook Perfect Steamed Chinese Pearl Meatballs

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Steamed Chinese Pearl Meatballs. Drain and pour onto a platter. Place the meatballs onto the lotus leaf inside the steamer, keeping some space in between each ball. Place a wolfberry on each meatball.

Steamed Chinese Pearl Meatballs We also call them snow meatballs in my family. They're basically steamed pork meatballs, covered in sticky rice. The sticky rice is cooked until translucent, as if covered in snow. You can have Steamed Chinese Pearl Meatballs using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Steamed Chinese Pearl Meatballs

  1. It's 400 grams of Ground pork.
  2. It's 1/2 of Bamboo shoot (boiled).
  3. You need 1/2 piece of Ginger.
  4. Prepare 1 of Egg white.
  5. You need 1 tbsp of Shaoxing wine※ or sake.
  6. Prepare 1 tbsp of Chicken stock granules.
  7. It's 1 dash of Salt and pepper.
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp of Sugar.
  9. Prepare 350 grams of Mochi sticky rice.
  10. You need 1 clove of Garlic.
  11. It's 1 dash of Green onions or scallions.
  12. Prepare 2 tbsp of ★Black vinegar.
  13. You need 2 tbsp of ★Soy sauce.
  14. Prepare 1 tsp of ★Sesame oil.
  15. Prepare 1 tsp of Doubanjiang (or ra-yu).

Carefully remove the rice balls from the steamer and transfer. Pearl Balls (珍珠丸子) - The tender and moist pork meatballs are covered with gooey rice. A dish fun to cook and delicious in taste! Position the meatballs on the bamboo leaf with about ½ an inch of space in between each meatball.

Steamed Chinese Pearl Meatballs step by step

  1. Finely chop the bamboo shoot and ginger..
  2. In a bowl, evenly combine the ingredients from Step 1 with the ground pork, egg white, Shaoxing wine, chicken stock granules, salt, pepper, and sugar..
  3. Form the mixture from Step 2 into balls..
  4. Rinse the mochi sticky rice and soak it in water for 30 minutes, then drain. Coat the balls from Step 3 evenly in the soaked rice..
  5. Put the rice-coated balls from Step 4 in a steamer and steam them for 30 minutes over high heat..
  6. Chop the green onions. Roughly chop the garlic..
  7. Combine the ★ ingredients with the chopped onions and garlic from Step 6 to make the sauce..
  8. Arrange on plate and serve..

To cook, start with cold water with the bamboo steamer covered. Hubei-style Pearl Meatballs are one of our favorite Chinese dishes to cook. If you're not familiar with them, they're pork meatballs which are minced by han. Steamed meatball is pretty common dim sum food. It can be made of beef, chicken, fish, shrimp or squid.