Name: Green Dragon Walnut Meatballs
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 cm piece of ginger, peeled and finely chopped; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp green pepper, halved and seeds and stem removed; 3 tsp rice vinegar or white wine vinegar; 2 tsp garlic cloves, finely chopped; 500 g pork mince; 4–5 spring onions, trimmed and finely chopped; 1½ tsp golden caster sugar; 3–4 pinches of mild chilli powder; 1 tbsp golden caster sugar; sea salt; 1 tbsp tomato purée; 75 g walnuts, chopped; 1 tbsp groundnut or sunflower oil; 1½ tbsp soy sauce; 4 tbsp water

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Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

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Marvellous Meals with Mince

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 2012

About

After a talk I gave at a literary festival recently, a woman from the audience showed me (as many have done over the years) a stained first edition of this book and told me that she has found these served in two different Chinese restaurants, purporting to be a classic Chinese dish. This is far from the case; I dreamt up both the recipe and its title in the 1980s! Quick to prepare, they are good for a lunch, served with noodles and a green salad. If you want to turn them into Red Dragon Wal

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