Happy Monday!
I hope this week will be awesome for you and for me and the entire human race. Yeah, am stealing Michael Jackson's words 😁
My youngest caught the cold. Nobody realized that his window was still somewhat open last night, and since he was mostly in front of his PC, the warmth of the screen for sure kinda help, so he didn't realize it as well even though he was in the room. So for sure, he caught the cold, sneezing and runny nose 😅 Let's blame the warming temperature. It makes you wanna open window to circulate the fresh air 😁 Bad mom, here, ladies and gents.
For today's recipe, it's Indonesian style meatballs, Bakso.
500 g ground chicken
500 g lean ground beef
1 frozen egg white
2 egg whites
1-2 c ice cubes
1 tbsp garlic powder, onion powder, chives, sesame oil
2 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
1 tsp double acting BP
6 tbsp tapioca starch
For Broth:
2 L water
A bunch of green onion
1/2 of an onion
6 garlic
3 candlenut
Chicken bouillon powder, white pepper powder, to taste
MSG, if you like, to taste
For Serving:
Glass noodle, rice noodle, or anytype of noodle you like
Sweet soy sauce (kecap manis)
Lemon juice
Sriracha, if you like
Fried onion
Bring a pot of water to simmer, set stove to lowest mark
In a food processor, mix ground beef and ground chicken to combine, then mix egg whites, followed with ice cubes until it forms a wet mixture
Add in the rest of the ingredients, continue mixing until a nice pinkish fine paste
Shape paste into balls between thumb and forefinger. Scoop and drop into the pot. Repeat steps until all paste turn into meatballs.
Once done, bring to boil until meatballs cooked through
Meanwhile, prepare a bowl of ice water
Once meatballs cooked, spoon them onto ice bath
In a clean pot, make the broth. Turn garlic onion, candlenut into a paste. Pour mixture into the pot, add green onion, bring to boil. Season with the other ingredients
For serving. Place a cooked noodle, add some meatballs, pour in enough broth. Serve with sauces and fried onion, if you like
Enjoy!
Sooo yummi I love meatballs soup 🍲😋
Same here 😍
Wow this food is looking so yummy and delicious. Hope you'll invite me next time to enjoy with you.
Come on over, my friend. I always make plenty 😊
Ahh another thing I enjoyed XD
Wait ice bath?! O_O
To make the balls bouncy 😊
So they won't bounce if you don't put them in ice? I don't know much about cooking XD
Less bouncy, yes
I've tried both ways
In my mind, those street vendors would have to need tons of ice to ice bath their meatballs, and they would make hundreds of the balls, so that must have been juts home cooks' tricks....until i tried both ways, and yes, softer without ice batch, and nicer with ice bath
With or without, we would still get nice meatballs, just differ texture 😁