Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chinese lionhead meatballs. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chinese Lionhead Meatballs is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chinese Lionhead Meatballs is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Lion's Head Meatball Recipe Instructions To make the meatballs: Make sure to find fatty ground pork. You can choose a fatty piece of pork shoulder and have the butcher grind it, or use our hand-chopping method to grind your own. To serve Lion's head meatballs, serve each meatball on a small plate surrounded by the greens, or in soup bowls with some of the bok choy and broth.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese lionhead meatballs using 42 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Lionhead Meatballs:

1. Make ready Meatballs
2. Make ready 1 pound ground pork
3. Take 3 tablespoons soy sauce
4. Make ready 1-1/2 tablespoon sugar
5. Make ready 1 tablespoons Shaoxing wine
6. Prepare 8 ounces water chestnuts
7. Get 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
8. Take 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
9. Take 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
10. Take 1 tablespoon minced garlic
11. Get 2 tablespoons water
12. Get 3 large eggs
13. Get 1 teaspoon salt
14. Make ready 1 cup peanut oil to fry in
15. Take Bok Choy
16. Get 1-1/2 pound bok-choy
17. Get 1 teaspoon sesame seed oil
18. Get 1 teaspoon salt
19. Prepare 1 tablespoon soy sauce
20. Prepare Steaming
21. Prepare 1 quart water
22. Take 1 tablespoon salt
23. Make ready Broth
24. Prepare 1/4 cup peanut oil you used to fry meatballs
25. Take 1/3 cup all purpose flour
26. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
27. Get 1/2 teaspoon ground white pepper
28. Make ready 1 tablespoon soy sauce
29. Make ready 1-1/2 pints chicken broth
30. Make ready 1 splash sesame seed oil
31. Get Garnish optional
32. Take 1/4 cup thinly sliced scallions
33. Make ready 1 teaspoon soy sauce
34. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
35. Get 1 splash roasted sesame seed oil
36. Get 1 teaspoon honey
37. Take Rice optional
38. Prepare 1 cup long grain rice
39. Get To taste salt
40. Make ready 2 tablespoons soya sauce
41. Get 2 cup steam water with drippings from meatballs and bok-choy
42. Take 1/4 cup peanut oil used to fry meatballs

Additionally, those meat balls can also be steamed or use as ingredient in soup recipes. Meatballs were good but not 'mouth-watering' or even close. And it was a lot of work with some exotic ingredients that will unlikely be used again before having to be thrown away. Dish was tasty enough (tho a bit salty.more brown sugar?) but won't make again for those reasons.

Instructions to make Chinese Lionhead Meatballs:

1. Mix the meatball ingredients. It may be a bit runny if so add a little more panko breadcrumbs. If to hard add a little water.
2. Heat the oil. Form the meatballs and fry the meatballs in the oil. The meatballs will be just sticky but firm enough to form. Get the water boiling in the steamer so it will be ready to steam. Get a good crust on the outside of the meatballs. No need to get the meatballs done, that will happen when you steam it.
3. Wash the bok-choy very carefully separate the stalks/ribs.
4. If you are using baby bok-choy just trim the ends. If using bigger bok-choy cut the big parts of the stalks into small portions. Coat the bok-choy with sesame seed oil, soya sauce, and salt. Let sit and marinate for 10 minutes. Steam the bok-choy with the fried meatballs for 30-40 minutes.
5. In the pot with the flour mixture add and reduce the chicken broth to half. When the bok-choy and meatballs are done dip into bowls or plates, and add some of the broth.
6. Slice the scallions and mash gently with a fork to separate the rings. Add to a bowl with soya sauce, honey, sesame oil, and vinegar serve over the top as an option, or just serve with meatballs over the top of rice, and bok-choy with the sauce. I hope you enjoy!!!
7. Add oil to pot and sauté the rice. Add 1 tablespoon of soy sauce and splash of sesame seed oil. The water should still be hot.
8. Measure out 2 cups and add to the sauteeing rice. Bring to a boil and simmer. Add the rest of the soya sauce.
9. When craters form cover and turn off the heat and let rest covered and undisturbed for 20 minutes. Fluff with a utensil and serve.

Chinese pork meatballs are also called lion's head (狮子头, shi zi tou). They feature tender, moist, and light meatballs with a savory taste. This dish is a staple food for my family, because it's quite easy to cook in big batches and is so comforting to enjoy any time. Eating the savory meatballs with rice is as addictive as eating a. It is called Lion Head meatballs because, once cooked, the meatballs are surrounded by Chinese cabbage, and the meatball is said to resemble the head of the lion, while the long pieces of cabbage.

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