Bacon, dried shrimp & spring onion chee cheong fun rolls
Make a Cantonese dim sum classic, known traditionally as chee cheong fun – long chunky rolled rice noodles. Delicious served with a spicy dipping sauce.
Lionhead meatball soup
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 4
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- 100ml groundnut oilfor frying
For the meatballs
- 500g lean pork mince
- 4 garlic clovesfinely minced
- 2 tbsp grated ginger
- 2 spring onionsfinely chopped
- 1 pinch of ground white pepper
- 50ml shaoxing rice wineor dry sherry
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 2 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 eggbeaten
- 1 tbsp cornflour
For the soup broth
- 500ml vegetable stock
- 5 dried Chinese mushroomsslices
- 200g Chinese leafwashed, quartered lengthways from leaf to stem
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 pinch of ground white pepper
- 1 tbsp cornflourmixed with 1 tbsp water
To serve
- 2 large spring onionswashed, trimmed and sliced, to serve
Nutrition: Per serving
- kcal459
- fat32g
- saturates8g
- carbs14g
- sugars5g
- fibre2g
- protein28g
- salt3.3g
Method
step 1
Put all the ingredients for the meatballs into a large bowl and stir to combine well. Using wetted hands, take a golf ball-sized mound and roll into a round shape. Put on a plate and repeat to make 12.
step 2
Pour the groundnut oil into a large wok or pan and set over high heat until a thermometer reads 160C. Put a meatball onto a slotted spoon and gently lower into the oil. Leave to brown for 5-7 mins until golden, then cook all the meatballs. To check if a meatball is cooked, push a skewer through and, if it comes out clean, it’s cooked. Lift the meatballs out, then drain on a plate lined with kitchen paper and set aside.
step 3
Add 1 tbsp of the hot oil to a clean wok. Put over a high heat, add the vegetable stock, 850ml water, the mushrooms and Chinese leaf, and cook over a medium heat for 10-12 mins. Add the meatballs and cook for a further 4-5 mins, adjusting the cabbage leaves so they wrap around each meatball – the meatball resembles the ‘lion's head’ and the cabbage resembles the ‘mane’. Season with sesame oil, salt and ground white pepper. To thicken the soup, add 1 tbsp of the cornflour mixture when the broth is boiling. Then turn the heat to low and garnish with the sliced spring onions.
step 4
Ladle a portion into soup bowls, spoon a meatball and with some Chinese leaf and sliced mushrooms, and serve immediately.
