"The lion's head" is huge meat meatballs, named so because with their own species remind the head of the lion, and the cabbage with which they are served - the lion's mane.
Ingredients
Minced pork - 500 g
Green onions - 50g
Ginger, root - 2 cm
Mirin (rice wine) - 1 tbsp.
Soy sauce - 1 tbsp.
Wheat flour - 1 + 1 tbsp.
Egg chicken - 1 pc.
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper - to taste
Sugar - 1 pinch
garlic - 2 teeth
Vegetable oil - for frying
Beijing cabbage - 7 leaves
For sauce:
Oyster mushrooms - 300 g
Broth - 300 ml
Soy sauce - 1 tbsp.
Sesame oil - 1ch.l.
Starch - 0.5 tbsp.
Salt to taste
Ground black pepper - to taste
Cooking.
"Lion heads" are usually prepared from pork minced meat, sometimes shrimp or crab meat are added to it.
Finely cut into the green onions (to put the white part to the side) and garlic, the root of ginger is cleaned and grated.
To pork minceda add soy sauce, mirin or wine (you can sherry), egg, onion, garlic, ginger, tablespoon of flour, ground pepper, by pinch salt and sugar
Machine mixed well with a spoon and, wetting hands in the water, blind rather large balls, I had about 80g each.
Balls cut into the remaining flour.
In a deep pan or wok, heat the vegetable oil (it must be pouring at about 1 cm) and fry meat balls in small batches to light golden color from 2 sides, while frying water oil.
Roasted balls put on a plate.
Meanwhile, cut mushrooms (I have oyster, but you can use champignons),
We present a white rigid part of the leaf of the Beijing cabbage and fry all this on the same frying pan, where the balls were roasted, but they will leave the oil quite a bit - 2 tbsp, we will add a white part of the green onion.
In 5-7 minutes, pour broth or water into the pan, add starch, sesame oil and soy sauce.
Bring the mixture to boil and turn off the fire.
Meatballs lay out in the form for baking, add mushroom sauce. The liquid must reach the middle of the balls, if the sauce is not enough, add some water.
The green part of the leaf of the Beijing cabbage is wearing our balls, forming the "lion mane".
Close the shape of the foil and place the oven in a heated to 180 degrees. Bake 30 minutes.
Serve "lion's heads" with mushroom sauce.
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