Vegetable Meatballs: Chewy, Delicious, and Nutritious – Kids Love Them!
Vegetable meatballs, chewy and elastic, and also nutritious, more fragrant than meat meatballs, children love them!
The Spring Festival is all about happy reunion, and plump meatballs are a must-have dish in every household. However, the price of meat is too high this year, 28 yuan per kilogram, and even only five-spiced pork can be bought. It's really extravagant to make meatballs with lean meat. Not long ago, I tried making vegetable meatballs, and to my surprise, the children loved them! Almost a whole plate was eaten by him alone! They are chewy and elastic, and nutritious. I've decided, the meatballs for tonight's New Year's Eve dinner will be made with them!
The texture of this meatball can absolutely surpass that of a meatball! Moreover, compared to its appearance and cost-effectiveness, it gets extra points in all aspects. I put all the ingredients together and made a full two plates, and it didn't cost more than ten yuan! The Spring Festival is traditionally a big feast of fish and meat, so adding a dish of vegetable meatballs not only helps to rest the intestines, but it's also super affordable. People who know how to live a good life should try it!
Vegetable Potato Starch Meatballs
Ingredients: Main ingredients: one head of broccoli, one carrot, one egg, 50g of pork
Accessories: salt to taste, water to taste, wood potato starch 100g
Procedure:
Prepare all the ingredients.
Cut the broccoli into florets and wash them clean, peel and slice the carrots, pour them into a pot of boiling water to blanch until they change color.
Drain the blanched broccoli and carrots, chop them into pieces, chop the pork into mince, and beat an egg.
Add an appropriate amount of water, add salt to season, and stir into a thick slurry with chopsticks.
Pour wood potato starch into the vegetable slurry
Use chopsticks to stir evenly, the wood potato starch has a lot of coarse particles, it's not easy to dissolve, you can cover it with a food-grade film to fully absorb moisture and soften
Do not add too much water. It's enough to mix into a dough.
About 20 minutes later, the coarse wood potato starch particles have become loose
Use your hands to knead them into an even dough
Divide the dough into meatballs of roughly equal size and shape them into balls and arrange them in a pan that has been oiled. Bring to a boil and steam until cooked.
