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Steamed Salted Egg Pork Patty

A classic Cantonese home-style dish: ground pork is mixed with salted egg white until it becomes sticky and cohesive, topped with salted egg yolk, then steamed until fully cooked, yielding a savory, fragrant, soft and silky smooth texture.

35 min
Easy
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Steamed Salted Egg Pork Patty

Ingredients

Pork (skinless, 30% fat 70% lean, minced) 300 g
White pepper 3 g
Salted eggs (separate and flatten the yolks; add the whites to the meat mixture) 2
Light soy sauce 25 g
Cornstarch 25 g
Peanut oil (used in batches) 25 g
MSG 2 g

Instructions

1

Make the patty

Mince the pork, then add salt, MSG, salted egg whites, and cornstarch and stir in one direction until the mixture becomes sticky. Add a pinch of peanut oil and mix well, then transfer the mixture to a plate and press it into a flat patty. Flatten the salted egg yolks and lay them on top of the pork patty. Steam over medium heat until cooked through.

2

Pour the sauce

Remove from the steamer. Stir some broth together with light soy sauce to taste, then pour the sauce over the pork patty and serve.