Delicious pearl balls can be made in two steps

Pearl balls

Difficulty: Intermediate Number of diners: 8-10 Cooking time: 20 minutes Cooking utensils: steamer

Pearl dumplings are a famous snack in Qiuyang (Xiantao City), Hubei Province, and are one of the famous "Three Steamings in Qiuyang". Most of the steamed vegetables in The Yang Dynasty are served as the main dishes in the feast, so the Jianghan Plain is known as the custom of "not inviting guests without going to the grid (referring to the steamer grid)". This dish is mostly served in small steamers, the traditional steamer is generally about 17 cm in diameter, small and refined, commonly known as "stack cage".

Ingredients: 150 g of rice, 200 g of minced meat

Excipients: 100 g lotus root (replaceable horseshoe), 10 goji berries (replaceable red pepper grains)

Seasoning: Salt 4 g, pepper 0.1 g, cooking wine 8 g, sugar 1 g, oyster sauce 8 g, green onion 5 g, ginger 5 g, sesame oil 1 g

Get ready

1. Soak the rice for 3 hours

2. Soak the goji berries in cold water for 10 minutes

3. Wash and peel the lotus root and chop it into rice-sized lotus roots

make

1. After the meat filling is mixed with lotus root, salt, sugar, oyster sauce, green onion, ginger, cooking wine, sesame oil, and then beat it in one direction, add a little water to ensure the smooth and tender q of the balls

2. Squeeze into balls and wrap evenly in soaked glutinous rice, add a goji berries to each top and steam for 12 minutes

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