Friday, December 19, 2008

Steamed Chinese Meatballs with Black Pepper Sauce (Bottom of the jar recipe)

This is a good way to incorporate fish into your family's diet if they're a bit picky or iffy on eating fish.

I basically get some skinless, boneless fillets of fish and either mince them by using a cleaver or mince using a food processor. Or you can even let them stay a bit chunky if you want. Combine with some minced pork and some minced garlic and season to taste. Add a dash of sesame oil. At this stage, with wet hands, you can shape the meat mixture into round balls. For variation I stuffed the balls with a small square of seafood stick and chopped shiitake mushrooms.

In a small bowl, combine some bottled black pepper sauce with some oyster sauce, tomato sauce, worcestershire sauce and water. This is my own concoction, of course you can just use the black pepper sauce on its own. But I only had a little bit of the black pepper sauce left, hence I call it my 'bottom of the jar recipe'. Pour the sauce over the meatballs and let steam for 20 minutes. If you're afraid your kid won't eat the black pepper sauce, you could steam the balls first then take one or two out for the child and pour over the sauce and steam till warmed through.

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