How did the four happy party balls in the hotel do it? Soft and delicious?

Chefs in the north often cook Four Joy Meetballs, which is often used for banquets. Because Four Joy Meetballs is relatively large, a meatball is given to four people, which is often used as one of the main dishes of festive banquets. For good luck, he was named four happy party balls, representing the four meanings of Flo Xi Shou.

Northern chefs often turn stewed lion's head into Huaiyang cuisine and Four Joy Meetballs into Shandong cuisine. Four Joy Meetballs made by Shandong cuisine chefs is fried first and then stewed. Stew for more than an hour, making the four wedding balls stew slowly and crisp, suitable for all ages.

Zhang Daqian, a master of Chinese painting, taught his wife to cook well. Four happy parties? Mr. Daqian's practice is that seven portions of lean meat and three portions of fat meat are finely cut and roughly chopped, and the size should be as small as rice grains, not too fine, so that there is a gap between the meat to accommodate the juice.

Question guide: How did the four Joy Meetballs in the hotel do it, a soft and delicious way?

The practice of Sixi Meetballs is to mix fat pork with horseshoe, mushrooms and other materials, stir and glue to make big balls, fry them in an oil pan at high temperature, and then simmer them in soup until they are soft and rotten.

Four Joy Meetballs is made from pork stuffing through cutting, mixing, seasoning, shaping, frying, stewing and pouring juice.

Sixi Meetballs pays attention to fat and thin materials, and it is best to cut them by hand, so that the pork can maintain a certain graininess and cannot be chopped into mud. In this way, when stewing, the soup will enter the gap between the meat particles, with rich juice and soft, waxy and tender taste.

Four Joy Meatballs

Required ingredients: pork 1000g, mushroom 50g, horseshoe 100g, onion 10g, ginger 10g, broccoli 150g.

Seasoning required: 6g of salt, 5g of monosodium glutamate, 5g of chicken essence, 5g of cooking wine, 5g of thirteen spices, 2g of pepper, 2g of sesame oil, 2g of pepper, 6g of aniseed, 3g of cinnamon, 4g of fragrant leaves, 10g of light soy sauce10g, 5g of light soy sauce, 5g of white sugar and 0g of water starch10g.

Production process:

1. Wash the mushrooms, blanch them and cut them into pieces. Peel, wash and chop water chestnut. Cut broccoli into small flowers and wash.

Cut the pork into fine grains. After the meat is cut, add some salt and mix well. First lock the moisture in the meat stuffing, then pour in the onion Jiang Shui several times and mix well. What is onion Jiang Shui? Explain later.

Don't add all the onions and Jiang Shui at once, add them in three times and stir them clockwise. After eating the onion Jiang Shui, pour in the onion Jiang Shui and continue stirring until all the onions and Jiang Shui are mixed into the meat.

2. Add cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, pepper, thirteen spices, sesame oil and soy sauce to taste, add mushrooms and horseshoes and stir clockwise. Beat the meat many times and throw out the glue to make the meat stronger.

3. Beat in two eggs and stir well, then add a proper amount of dry starch and stir well to further lock the water.

4. Divide the prepared pork stuffing into 4 equal parts, dip a little water (or egg liquid) with your hands, and turn the pork stuffing into a round big meat ball with two hands upside down.

5. On the wok fire, pour a proper amount of oil into the wok and heat it to about 70%. Gently put the prepared meatballs into the wok, carefully push the meatballs with a spoon to make them evenly heated and fry until they are formed.

When frying four happy party balls, some of them will be exposed to oil. You can scoop up the hot oil in the pot and pour it over the meatballs repeatedly. When the meatballs are fried to golden brown, scoop them up with a colander and drain the oil.

6. Heat the wok, add a little base oil, saute shallots, ginger and pepper, add appropriate amount of soup stock (or clear water), add cinnamon and fragrant leaves, then add cooking wine, salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, pepper, sugar and soy sauce to taste, and put the fried meatballs in the pot for about one and a half hours.

7. Take out the stewed Four Joy Meetballs and put it in a deep dish. Filter out the original soup of stewed meatballs and pour it into a pot to boil. After tasting the salty taste, add a proper amount of water starch to thicken it into juice, sprinkle with a little onion oil, evenly pour it on the four wedding balls, and then sprinkle with chopped green onion. When the broccoli is cooked, make a border.