Japanese recipe for chicken and tofu meatballs
Try this delicious Japanese recipe for chicken and tofu dumplings, perfect for a quick and tasty meal. This simple and healthy recipe is easy to prepare and is sure to please the whole family. Find out how to make these moist and tasty meatballs now!
Equipment
- 1 mixer
- 1 Large saucepan
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 200 g chicken
- 60 g of silken tofu
- 2 tbsp of potato starch or cornstarch
- 1 tsp of sake
- 1 tsp of shoyu soy sauce
- 1/2 tsp grated pureed ginger
- 1/2 tsp of salt
Meatball sauce
- 30 ml of water
- 2 tbsp of shoyu soy sauce
- 2 tbsp of sugar
- 1 tbsp of oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp of honey
- 1 tsp of potato starch
For decoration
- sesame seeds
- some chives
Instructions
- Cut your chicken into pieces. Then in a blender, add the diced chicken, silken tofu, cornstarch, soy sauce, sake, grated ginger and salt.
- Mix until you have a paste
- In a large saucepan, heat water over medium heat. Using teaspoons, ice cream scoops or your hands, form balls. Then cook them in the water of the pan for about ten minutes on medium-high heat.It all depends on the size of your meatballs, the bigger they are, the longer you have to leave them in the pan.
- Using a skimmer, arrange your meatballs on a plate.
- In a bowl, mix together the ingredients for the meatball sauce. In a pan heated to low-medium heat, place your meatballs and then the sauce.
- The sauce will thicken.
- Gently coat your dumplings with the sauce, using a spatula.
- It's ready ! You can add sesame seeds and chives on top.
