Poached Rabbit Meatball Soup
Korean-style rabbit meatball soup with a milky white broth, tender and chewy meatballs, and a delicious spicy and sour flavor.
Story
This cozy Korean-inspired rabbit meatball soup is a heartwarming dish defined by its rich, milky white broth, soft yet pleasantly chewy rabbit meatballs, and bright, well-balanced spicy and sour notes that make every spoonful deeply satisfying.
Ingredients
Instructions
Prepare rabbit meat
Soak the wild rabbit meat in water for 4 hours to remove blood foam and grassy odor, then wash clean, remove the fascia, and mince into a fine paste using two cleavers.
Prepare the filling
Put the rabbit meat paste into a porcelain basin, add cooking wine, egg white, refined salt, 5g of sesame oil, and starch, then stir evenly to form the filling.
Blanch the meatballs
Squeeze the mixed filling into 3cm-diameter meatballs, blanch them briefly in a pot of boiling water, then remove and cool in cold water.
Prepare the auxiliary ingredients
Cut the cucumber and ham into oval-shaped slices; wash the Chinese cabbage, cut into oval slices, blanch in boiling water briefly, then cool in cold water; pick the pine mushrooms clean, wash, and cut into thin slices; pick the coriander clean, wash, and cut into sections; soak the daylily buds until fully rehydrated, pick clean, wash, squeeze out excess water, and cut into sections; peel the green onion and ginger, wash, and cut both into shreds; pick the rehydrated white fungus clean, wash, and cut into slices.
Simmer the dish
After cleaning the casserole, add chicken broth, shredded green onion and ginger, all the prepared auxiliary ingredients, rehydrated dried shrimp, and sliced white fungus, then add cooking wine, refined salt, and MSG. Bring to a boil, adjust the seasoning to taste, add the rabbit meatballs and sliced pine mushrooms. Once cooked through, remove the main and auxiliary ingredients, and divide them into small individual bowls.
Make the sour and spicy soup
Skim off the foam from the remaining soup in the casserole, add rice vinegar, ground white pepper, and sesame oil to create a sour and spicy broth, add the coriander sections, bring to a boil, then pour the broth evenly into each small bowl of rabbit meatballs, and it is ready to serve.