Pork Balls with Lemongrass

Name: Pork Balls with Lemongrass
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon turmeric powder; juice of ½ lime; 4 stems of lemongrass, very finely chopped; vegetable oil, for frying; ½ inch/1 cm piece of fresh gingerroot, peeled and grated; 2 tomatoes, skinned, deseeded, and finely chopped; 1 lb/450 g lean ground pork; 2 tablespoons Thai red curry paste

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Floyd's Great Curries

By Keith Floyd

Published 2004

About

Another great snack food. They can be eaten hot or cold. If you serve them as an entrée, make the balls a little larger.

Ingredients

1 lb/450 g lean ground pork
4 stems of lemongrass, very finely chopped

Asia
Starter
Snack
Gluten-free

Method

Put all the ingredients except the vegetable oil into a large bowl and mix together. Then, using your hands, form the mixture into small balls.

Fry the pork balls in about 1 inch/2.5 cm of hot oil