You can make Beijing-style stewed meatballs in rich old soup by yourself. Let’s take a look at the steps:
Oiled Tofu Meatball Soup
How to do it
Prepare ingredients:
①Meatball ingredients: 5kg beef (pork and mutton are also acceptable), 1kg pepper water, 2.5kg starch, 50g refined salt, 100g ginger, appropriate amount of five-spice seasoning noodles, alkaline noodles 5 grams.
② Oil tofu material: 5 kilograms of tender tofu.
③Soup ingredients: 1 chicken, 2 kilograms of pork or one skeleton, 200 grams of lard, 200 grams of green onions, 100 grams of ginger, 5 dried chili peppers, and a seasoning bag (each of Sichuan peppercorns and aniseed) 50g), 300g flour.
④Add soup seasonings: appropriate amounts of soy sauce, monosodium glutamate, pepper, sesame oil, and coriander.
Preparation method:
1. Chop the beef with a knife or mince it with a machine and put it into a meat filling container. Add the pepper water into the meat filling several times and stir. When the meat filling becomes sticky, add appropriate amount of refined salt and mix well, then add five-spice powder and minced ginger and mix well, add alkaline noodles and wet starch and mix well, squeeze into balls larger than cherries, fry in oil pan until brown and remove.
2. Cut the tofu into 5 cm long and 0.6 cm thick triangular slices, fry in hot oil until golden brown and remove.
3. Put water in a large pot, add chicken, pork or a skeleton, lard, onion and ginger, seasoning bag, dried chili, etc. to make old soup. After the pot boils, add the flour with cold water Make a thin paste and pour it into the soup pot. Add an appropriate amount of croquettes and fried tofu (additional as sold) and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes. The meatballs have fully softened and the tofu has become lighter in color and has begun to sink. Occasionally I have a bowl of meatball soup, it tastes great.
4. When eating, put some chopped coriander, soy sauce (you can omit the soy sauce), salt, pepper, MSG, and sesame oil in the bowl, and then scoop a few meatballs and fried tofu into the bowl. , finally ladle out the soup, and the delicious Beijing-style soup balls are ready to serve.