Speaking of this meatball, mothers who often cook are no strangers. If there are children at home, they will always cook some food in the shape of meatballs, but each child's preferences are different. For example, in our family, the eldest likes steamed dumplings, and the second likes fried meatballs that are tender outside and tender inside. But no matter how picky they are, I have a way to deal with it.
At noon, I twisted a bowl of vegetable meat, made them a plate of meatballs in two different ways, and two children made a plate, which was delicious. For mothers with children at home, both methods should be mastered, which is particularly practical!
One is pearl balls, also called glutinous rice balls, wrapped in a layer of glutinous rice and steamed in a pot. They are fragrant and waxy, delicious without getting angry. They are my eldest daughter's favorite. She can eat a dozen meatballs every time she makes them. Since she started eating meatballs, I can't remember how many times she made these pearl glutinous rice meatballs.
The other is the croquette below, which is said to be croquette. In fact, it uses a little oil. Brush a layer of cooking oil on the cooked meatballs and fry them in an air frying pan, so that the surface of the meatballs is brown and crisp, more like fried meatballs, but the fried meatballs in this way use less oil and are healthier. It is also especially suitable for dipping children in ketchup.
Let me share how to make these two kinds of meatballs. But what kind of meatballs are? First, you have to make stuffing. I like to mix meat and vegetables to make stuffing for children, so that children can eat both meat and vegetables when they eat, and they will not be picky about food, and their nutrition will be more comprehensive.
First of all, let's take a look at the practice of glutinous rice pearl balls that our eldest daughter likes to eat. To make this meatball, you need to soak glutinous rice in advance, usually for more than 2 hours;
Prepare raw materials: glutinous rice, pork, carrots, broccoli, eggs, spiced powder, salt, sugar and soy sauce;
Tools: food processor, steamer;
1, I use pork as stuffing, the meat is fat and thin, basically fat 3 and thin 7, and the vegetables added are carrots and broccoli, or you can choose according to your own preferences. Broccoli needs to be blanched with boiling water in advance before use; Carrots just need to be peeled and cut into pieces.
2. Put pork, carrots and broccoli into a food processor, which is what we often call a meat grinder;
3. Cover the lid and start the food processor. It only takes about 15 second.
4, open the lid, the ingredients in the bowl have been mixed into delicate fillings; Of course, friends who don't have a meat grinder can also choose to chop vegetables with a knife or in other ways, as long as they chop the vegetables and meat very finely;
5. Take out the knife in the food processor, be careful not to hurt your hands, and then put an egg, a spoonful of salt, a spoonful of spiced powder, a spoonful of sugar and a spoonful of soy sauce into the basin; Putting eggs can make the stuffing more sticky and taste better;
6, stir in one direction with chopsticks, or you can grab it by hand, hurry up, and soon the meat will stick;
7. Squeeze out a small ball and put it on the glutinous rice soaked for more than 2 hours. Glutinous rice must be soaked in advance, otherwise it will not steam well;
8. Roll the meatballs around the glutinous rice, and the surface of the meatballs will be wrapped with glutinous rice;
9. Steam the balls wrapped in glutinous rice in a container, either on a plate or in a small drawer like me;
10, steam for about 30 minutes, and ensure that the glutinous rice and meatballs are cooked before eating. Sweet glutinous rice, soft vegetable balls and fragrant glutinous rice are very delicious.
This is another kind of meatball. This kind of meatball is tender outside, and the stuffing is the same as the glutinous rice meatball above, but the taste is completely different and the method is different. Come and have a closer look!
Raw materials: pork, carrots, broccoli, eggs, spiced powder, salt, sugar, soy sauce and cooking oil;
1. Put the meat, broccoli and carrot into a food processor, start the machine, twist it into stuffing, take out the cutter head, add eggs, sugar, salt, soy sauce and spiced powder, and stir in one direction with chopsticks to make the stuffing sticky.
2. Fill the pot with water, squeeze the prepared meat stuffing into meatballs, put them in clear water, and then cook the meatballs with high fire; Cooking in cold water helps to boil blood foam in meatballs. In addition, the meatballs made by this method are tender in taste, more beautiful in shape and will not spread.
3. After the meatballs are cooked, remove them with a colander and drain the excess water;
4. Spread a piece of oil paper in the air fryer, put the cooked meatballs into the pot and brush a layer of cooking oil;
5. Air fryer 180 degrees 10 minutes, and the meatballs are turned over in the middle and heated evenly. The fried meatballs are brown on the outside, slightly crispy on the skin, but tender inside;
Dip the fried meatballs in tomato sauce, it will taste better! For children, this is a snack! If there are picky eaters at home who don't like vegetables or meat, try this method. Maybe you will like it. My second child especially likes to eat this kind of meatballs, which uses less oil, tastes good and has more comprehensive nutrition.
Have you learned to make two kinds of meatballs? There are children at home and meatballs are indispensable. The meatballs made of this mixture of vegetables and meat can be steamed, boiled, fried less, or fried in oil pan, and you can eat whatever you want. However, I recommend air frying and steaming with less oil, which are more nutritious and healthy and suitable for children.