Teochew Hand-Pounded Beef Balls

Ingredients List

• 300g pork filling
• 1 egg
• 30g starch
• 2 green onions
• 3 slices of ginger

Cooking Steps

1. 1. Slice the beef against the grain, add cooking wine, soy sauce, and starch, mix well, and marinate for 15 minutes.
2. 2. Pour an appropriate amount of cooking oil into the pot and heat it to 70% heat.
3. 3. Add beef and stir-fry quickly over high heat until it changes color.
4. 4. Add onion and ginger and continue to stir-fry until cooked
5. 5. Add appropriate amount of salt and a little soy sauce to enhance the freshness, stir well over high heat and serve.
6. 6. Remove from the pot and plate

Cultural Tips

Chaoshan cuisine is an important branch of Cantonese cuisine, known for its exquisite knife-workers and extreme pursuit of seafood ingredients. Chaoshanese people make good use of brine and tea sauce. Chaoshan beef hot pot, red roast goose, fish balls, etc. are all well-known cuisines in the country. Chaoshan beef balls are well known in Chaoshan, Guangdong. It is a necessary dish for festivals and family gatherings, and a microcosm of the food culture of Chaoshan.