June dinner - Pearl Pork Meatballs

Great gathering we had in June. Here's photo I took from previous experiments.

Pearl Rice Pork Meatball
Ingredients:

• Ground Pork (2 lb, makes 4 plates, ~15 each)
• Salt
• Sugar (a pinch)
  
• White ground pepper (白胡椒粉)
• Canned water chestnut (荸薺)
• Seasame oil
• Soy sauce
• Rice wine
  
• Ground ginger
• Corn starch (太白粉)
  
• Sweet rice (糯米)

Directions:

• Start by soaking rice in water (10 min), for coating pearls.
• Hammer water chestnuts to very small pieces and mix into pork
• Mix all ingredients, make solid meatball, coat with rice
• Steam for 12~15 min.

Tips:

• I hate hand mixing ground meat, so I mixed everything into the bag meat came with.
• Corn starch is crucial to hold meatball together, do not substitute.
• Do season ground meat by not being stingy on salt and soy sauce; otherwise meatball end up blend and I had to "taint" meatball with soy sauce (not pretty, black pearl, pic 2).