Blanched Rabbit Meatballs
Korean-style rabbit meatball soup with a milky white broth, tender, chewy meatballs, and a bright, appetizing sour-spicy flavor.
Ingredients
Instructions
Preparing the rabbit meat
Soak the wild rabbit meat in water for 4 hours to remove the blood foam and grassy smell, wash it, remove the fascia, and mince into a paste using two knives.
Making the filling
Place the rabbit paste in a porcelain bowl, add cooking wine, egg whites, fine salt, 5g sesame oil, and starch, and mix well to form the filling.
Blanching the meatballs
Squeeze the mixed filling into 3cm balls, blanch in boiling water, remove, and rinse with cold water.
Preparing the ingredients
Cut the cucumber and ham into diamond-shaped slices; wash the napa cabbage, cut into diamond-shaped slices, blanch in boiling water, and rinse with cold water; clean and thinly slice the pine mushrooms; clean and cut the cilantro into segments; soak the daylily until tender, clean, squeeze out the water, and cut into segments; peel and wash the scallion and ginger, and julienne both; clean and slice the soaked white fungus.
Cooking
After cleaning the clay pot, add the chicken broth, scallion and ginger shreds, all the ingredients, soaked dried shrimp, and white fungus slices, then add cooking wine, fine salt, and MSG. Once boiling, adjust the seasoning, add the rabbit meatballs and pine mushroom slices. Once cooked, remove the main and side ingredients and divide into individual small bowls.
Seasoning the soup
Skim the foam from the broth in the clay pot, add Chinkiang vinegar, ground white pepper, and sesame oil to create a sour and spicy flavor. Add cilantro segments, bring to a boil, and ladle over the rabbit meatballs in each small bowl. Serve immediately.