- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Serving: 4 Persons
Nutrition facts (per portion)
- Calories: 366
- Carbohydrate Content: 29g
- Fat Content: 14g
- Fiber Content: 4g
- Protein Content: 32g
- Saturated Fat Content: 5g
- Sodium Content: 2.5g
- Sugar Content: 11g
Oriental pork balls in hoisin broth Recipe
Oriental pork balls in hoisin broth is a Holiday-at-home recipe for 4 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has pork mince, soy sauce and cornflour.
Ingredients
- Spring Onion - bunch spring onions, cut into lengths, plus a few tops chopped to serve
- Carrot - 2 large carrots, shaved into strips with a potato peeler
- Soy Sauce - 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Hoisin Sauce - 3 tbsp hoisin sauce
- Chicken Stock - 500ml chicken stock
- Ginger - thumb-sized piece ginger, shredded
- Cornflour - 2 tbsp cornflour
- Chinese Five Spice Powder - 1 tsp Chinese five-spice powder
- Beansprout - 300g pack beansprout
- Pork Mince - 500g pack lean pork mince
- Water Chestnut - 225g can water chestnut, drained, half finely chopped, half sliced
- Chinese Leaves - 8 Chinese leaves, thick part sliced, leaves shredded
Instructions
- Tip the mince into a bowl with the soy, cornflour, five-spice, chopped water chestnuts and some black pepper. Work everything together, then shape into 12 meatballs.
- Pour the stock into a wide, deep pan and stir in the hoisin and ginger. Add the meatballs, then cover and poach for 5 mins. Drop in the carrots, Chinese leaves, beansprouts, spring onions and sliced chestnuts, then put on the lid and simmer for 5 mins. Ladle into bowls, then serve scattered with spring onion tops.
