Chinese Fried Pork Pellets

Name: Chinese Fried Pork Pellets
Yield: Serves 4, if served with 2 or more other dishes
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon sake; corn or peanut oil, for frying; 3 tablespoons soy sauce; 5 tablespoons cornflour; 1 egg white; 2 teaspoons ginger juice; 2 tablespoons sake; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 pound pork fillet; dash of monosodium glutamate

Preparation info

Serves
4
, if served with 2 or more other dishes

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Robert Carrier Cookbook

By Robert Carrier

Published 1965

About

Ingredients

1 pound pork fillet
½ teaspoon salt
dash of monosodium glutamate

Asia
China
Main course

Method

Cut pork into bite-sized pieces, place in a bowl, and season with salt, monosodium glutamate and sake.

Batter

Beat egg white in a bowl until stiff; add cornflour mixed with soy sauce, sake and ginger juice, and mix well to make batter. Heat oil for deep-frying to 350°F. Cover pork well with batter and fry until crisp and golden.