Holiday-at-home recipe for 4 people, takes only 10 mins; recipe has pork mince, soy sauce, cornflour, chinese five-spice powder, water chestnut, chicken stock, hoisin sauce, ginger, carrot, chinese leaves, beansprout and spring onion.
Oriental pork balls in hoisin broth
Course: Holiday-at-home
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
20 mins
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
Directions
- 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.
