Meat Ball Soup Fukien Style

Name: Meat Ball Soup Fukien Style (Lung hsu yen wan)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 6 cups soup stock; 2 tablespoons celery (chopped); 1-½ tablespoon cornstarch; 1 teaspoon sesame oil; 4 oz. dried pork sheet (Yuan-Pi); 10 oz. ground pork; 4 oz. dried pork sheet (Yuan-Pi); 1 tablespoon dried shrimp (soaked and chopped); 1 tablespoon dried black mushrooms (soaked and chopped); 1 egg white; 1 tablespoon green onion (chopped); ⅙ teaspoon black pepper; 1 teaspoon salt

Lung hsu yen wan

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

4 oz. dried pork sheet (Yuan-Pi)
10 oz. ground pork
1

Asia
Taiwan
Fukien
Soup
Gluten-free

Method

Use a wet cloth to moisten dried pork sheet. Roll up tightly and cut into strings 1 inch long. Place on tray.
Place ground pork in large bowl, and add shrimp, mushrooms, green onion, egg, salt, black pepper, cornstarch, sesame oil and 1 tablespoon soup stock. Mix well until pork is very sticky.
Shape pork mixture into 40 small balls. Place each ball o