Claypot Fish Balls
A Cantonese home-style fish ball soup made with dace fish balls, glass noodles, and Chinese sausage, gently simmered.
Ingredients
minced dace fish meat
225 g
Chinese sausage (diced)
1
black moss (soaked and cut into sections)
20 g
vermicelli noodles
50 g
chicken broth
100 g
lettuce
180 g
soy sauce
20 g
oil
20 g
cornstarch (for thickening)
15 g
sesame oil
15 g
fine salt
5 g
white pepper
5 g
shrimp (chopped)
10 g
cilantro (chopped)
10 g
scallion (chopped)
10 g
Instructions
1
Prepare the Fish Ball Filling
Mix the chopped shrimp, diced Chinese sausage, black moss sections, cilantro, scallion, and fish meat together until evenly combined.
2
Cook the Fish Balls
Heat the chicken broth in a pot. Squeeze the fish mixture into balls and drop them into the soup. Cook through, then take them out and set aside.
3
Add the Accompaniments
Add the vermicelli noodles and lettuce to the soup pot, then add soy sauce and the remaining seasonings and simmer for a moment. Arrange the cooked fish balls on top.
4
Thicken and Finish
In a separate pot, prepare a cornstarch slurry and pour it over the fish balls to finish the dish.