Oriental pork ball soup

Pork balls

• Pork mince
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 3 spring onions (both the leaves and white part)
• 1 onion
• ginger
• white pepper

Soup

• 1/2 litre of water
• chicken stock powder
• 3 spring onions cut into 1" peices (both the leaves and white part)

Method

1. Finely chop the onions, garlic and ginger in a food processor.
2. Thoroughly mix the chopped ingredients by hand with the mince adding a good sprinkle of pepper.
3. Form small balls from the mixed ingredients and cook in a steamer for 10 minutes
4. Bring 1/2 a litre of water mixed with the other soup ingredients to the boil in a saucepan
5. Add the pork balls and simmer the soup for a further couple of minutes.
6. Serve an enjoy!

I think this is a first for my blog. I love cooking and yesterday I came up with this simple but tasty recipie for a light soup. I decided to steam the pork balls first so that I could make a large batch of them to either freeze or, as it happened, eat again the following day. I thought that they would keep better cooked.

The stock powder I used is one that I buy every time I visit Japan called "Tori Gara Suupu" by a company called Ajinomoto. It's a chinese style stock powder made from chicken skin and makes a very light and clear soup.

I served this soup with bowls of rice and a green salad, keeping plenty of sweet chilli dipping sauce to hand to spice things up a little.

Comments

[KorBua]

Sounds like u had a great meal there. :) Maybe u could post more recipe if u dun mind me borrowing some of them. Cooking has always been my fav activity. Unfortunately, the gift of cooking has never been passed on to me. :P

[Chris]

Yeah... this could become a regular thing :) I usually try and cook something half decent each weekend so watch this space.