Home-made Meat Balls

I have been looking for a good recipe for meat balls for quite sometime. I found many recipes using breadcrumbs but I've never bought any before so was quite hesitant to buy a big packet only for making meat balls. Since I am into bento now, it will be another good finger food to store and  pack!

While I was flipping one of the many recipe books in my collection, I discovered one recipe which is quite easy. Though it has a lot of ingredients but I decided to do without most of them except some core ones. The recipes asked for water chestnuts, dried prawns and spring onions but I don't have those with me so I omitted them. Instead I added shallots and breadcrumbs.

I was truly surprised with the results. It tasted better than I've anticipated! I guess what is more important is, they don't disintegrate when I fry them... which was what happened to some of those I did in the past. Finally, I discovered the masking ingredient, which is the good ole white bread! :P

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Ingredients

• 200g Lean meat (I used pork loin)


• 2 Shallots (finely chopped)


• 1.5pcs White bread (removed crust & cut into mini squares)


• 1tbsp Sunflower or Olive oil (original recipe asked for sesame oil)


• 2tbsp Corn flour


• 2 Egg yolks


• 2tbsp Breadcrumbs


• Salt and pepper for taste

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Methods

1. Clean and minced the meat until very fine and mix with all the other ingredients.


2. Use a spoon and scoop wanted amount and roll into balls. Compact the meat balls by throwing the balls into your palm a few times (this will help hold all the ingredients together).


3. Heat up a medium pan with half filled oil and deep fry the meat balls till cook and turned golden brown. Lift up and place them onto paper towel to absorb excess oil.