Vegetable Rice Balls (Cai Gan Guo)

Name: Vegetable Rice Balls (Cai Gan Guo)
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Ingredients: Appropriate amount Rice; 1 piece Pork Leg Meat; Appropriate amount Meigancai (Preserved Vegetable); A few Dried Shiitake Mushrooms; 1/2 root Carrot; 1 piece Spring Bamboo Shoots; 1 handful Jiaotou Leaves (Chinese Chive Leaves); Small amount Cooking Oil; Appropriate amount Dark Soy Sauce; Appropriate amount Light Soy Sauce; Appropriate amount Oyster Sauce; Appropriate amount Salt; Appropriate amount Chicken Essence; Appropriate amount Cooking Wine

Qingming Guo is a customary food eaten during the Qingming Festival in my hometown. It is a type of rice ball. After steaming the boiled rice, stir-fried bamboo shoots, preserved vegetables (Meigancai), shredded pork, mushrooms, and Chinese chive leaves are added, then shaped into a ball.

1h 10m

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Ingredients

Rice Appropriate amount

Pork Leg Meat 1 piece

Meigancai (Preserved Vegetable) Appropriate amount

Dried Shiitake Mushrooms A few

Carrot 1/2 root

Spring Bamboo Shoots 1 piece

Jiaotou Leaves (Chinese Chive Leaves) 1 handful

Cooking Oil Small amount

Dark Soy Sauce Appropriate amount

Light Soy Sauce Appropriate amount

Oyster Sauce Appropriate amount

Salt Appropriate amount

Chicken Essence Appropriate amount

Cooking Wine Appropriate amount

Instructions

Step 1

Wash the rice clean, put it in the pot with cold water, and stir appropriately while cooking to avoid sticking to the pot.

Step 2

Cook until the rice grains can be crushed easily.

Step 3

Remove the rice and drain the rice soup, then steam until cooked and set aside.

Step 4

Pour a small amount of cooking oil into the pot, add diced fat meat, and stir-fry to render the oil.

Step 5

After removing the excess oil, add the lean meat and stir-fry until it changes color.

Step 6

Add dark soy sauce, light soy sauce, oyster sauce, salt, chicken essence, and cooking wine; simmer for a while.

Step 7

Then add the cut and processed preserved vegetables (Meigancai), mushrooms, carrots, and spring bamboo shoots.

Step 8

Stir-fry to mix in the flavor, and season appropriately according to taste.

Step 9

Finally, add the Jiaotou leaves (Chinese chive leaves) and stir-fry evenly.

Step 10

Add the steamed rice.

Step 11

Mix evenly and turn off the heat.

Step 12

Shape the mixture into rice balls.