Ching He Huang/Chinese Food Made Easy/Cooking for family/’Lion head’ meatballs
Ching He Huang/Chinese Food Made Easy/Cooking for family
‘Lion head’ meatballs
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Ching makes a dish named after the way it’s served, surrounded by Chinese cabbage: the meatball is said to resemble a lion’s head, while the cabbage is the lion’s mane.
Ingredients
For the meatballs
500g/1lb 2oz beef mince
4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 tbsp grated fresh root ginger
2 spring onions, finely chopped
pinch sea salt
1 tbsp Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry (or more, to taste)
2 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
1 free-range egg, beaten
1 tbsp cornflour
pinch ground white pepper
For the finished dish
100ml/3½fl oz groundnut oil
750ml/1¼ pint vegetable stock
300g/11oz Chinese leaf, quartered lengthways
3 dried Chinese mushrooms, soaked in warm water for 15 minutes, then drained (alternative use fresh chestnut mushrooms, sliced)
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp cornflour, mixed with 2 tbsp cold water (optional)
sea salt and ground white pepper
2 large spring onions, sliced
dash sesame oil (optional)
Method
1. For the meatballs, place all of the meatball ingredients into a large bowl and stir to combine.
2. With damp hands, take a large mound of the minced meat mixture and mould into a ball that is a little larger than a golf ball. Place on a plate and repeat with the remaining meatball mixture.
3. For the finished dish, pour the groundnut oil into a large deep pan and heat over a high heat. Using a metal ladle, carefully lower each meatball into the oil and spoon some of the oil over the meatballs. Cook for 4-5 minutes, or until golden-brown all over.
4. Pour all but two tablespoons of the cooking oil out into a heatproof bowl. Add the stock to the pan and arrange the slices of Chinese cabbage around the meatballs, curving them around the sides of the pan lengthways, then add the mushrooms and soy sauce and bring to the boil. Cover the pan, reduce the heat and cook gently for 15 minutes. Alternatively, cook the meatballs in the oven; arrange in a casserole dish, cover with kitchen foil and cook in a preheated oven at 100C/210F/Gas ¼ for 30 minutes. If the sauce is too thin, add the cornflour paste and stir until thickened.
5. Take the meatballs off the heat and season, to taste, with sea salt and ground white pepper. Transfer to a serving dish, garnish with the spring onions, sprinkle over a dash of seame oil and serve immediately.
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@seiyaodango Amen! …
@seiyaodango Amen! I’m sick and tired of the same reciples constantly repeated on Foodnetwork.
it doesn’t matter …
it doesn’t matter what a woman looks like if she can cook like that, shes soooooooooooooooooooooooooo marriage material!
wonderful meal …
wonderful meal tried it and loved it
every dish tastes …
every dish tastes the same because the same ingredients are present in every dish she tries her hand at -be it fish, chcken,c beef, veggies etc. etc. Absolutely no defining of what each dish is about -rather like the amateur Thai cooks who throw together lemongrass, lime, chilli and corriander -mix it with ice cream and hey Thai dish. Very poor representation of Chinese food and I wish the producers had more integrity to go more for the food than just to put a pretty face in front of a wok.
i think it will …
i think it will taste good too. but i might use an onion instead of spring onion if i’m gonna try it on a poultry meat. just my instinct
Most Lion’s Head …
Most Lion’s Head dishes usually use ground pork.
this dish looks …
this dish looks good can you use a little white wine for sauce
Good edit and no …
Good edit and no need to wait too much. We are all hungry.
Does anyone know …
Does anyone know how this might turn out with chicken or turkey instead? I can’t eat red meat but this looks so delicious.
she is just so …
she is just so beautiful. and cooks. i wanna marry her. lol.
she great school
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she great school
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oh so u never seen …
oh so u never seen a bamboo bowl? you underestimate the versatile uses of bamboo my friend
The video is ok but …
The video is ok but i prefer the way i cook my lion’s head.
I like this video …
I like this video thanks
It would be nice …
It would be nice for me to find an asain friend so we can share our culture living with one another. I must admit asain’s do have some of the most healthiest cooking next to a vegeterian, it is demostrated that meat can be prepared in a healthy way.
How can you like …
How can you like her so much and never have noticed her accent? Noticing small details is the only way to win a woman’s heart……….
huge bamboo bowl?
huge bamboo bowl?
i thought it was …
i thought it was obvious she had a british accent unless that’s you talk in america.
Are you saying that …
Are you saying that my honesy Ching is from England? No wonder she has a different accent than the chinese girls in America. I never noticed that. I wish she come to America so we can go out.
thank you! i’ve …
thank you! i’ve been waiting for someone to answer my question.
because i went grocery shopping and i couldn’t find corn flour. so then i thought there’s no such thing as corn flour lol
well i guess it’s corn flour in england and corn starch in america.
corn starch is the …
corn starch is the same as corn flour its just the english desciption differs than the american
when she says corn …
when she says corn flour she means corn starch?
what do you serve …
what do you serve with the meatballs?? Im guessing its not the same as here in Sweden..
I agree!!
I agree!!
Very fattening
Very fattening