September 2017 Home Cooking DOTM: BALL SHAPED FOOD

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The Chinese’s Lion Head - pork meatball

Mushy lion's head mixture

I quadrupled fuchsia dunlop’s recipe for lion’s head meatballs. I’m intending to make both the version in broth, and the red cooked version. At the point where you add water, eggs whites, and cornstarch slurry my mixture got very loose and wet. I’m not sure I can form them into ball shape as it is. It may be that quadrupling the recipes exactly doesn’t really work? I’m draining the mix in a colander overnight in the fridge to see if that helps. I fried up a small patty and when cooked it held it…