Serves:4
Preparation time:45 minutes
Marinating time:10 minutes
Difficulty:Easy
Ingredients:
- 400g lean beef or pork mince (finely ground)
- 1 clove garlic, grated or very finely chopped
- ½ thumb (approx. 1 heaped tsp.) grated ginger
- 2 spring onions, white and pale green parts only, very finely sliced
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 cup Panko crumbs (Japanese breadcrumbs)
- 1 tbsp. cornflour
- 1 tbsp. Chang's Original Hoisin Sauce
- ½ cup neutral oil
Soup:
- 4 cups beef or chicken stock
- 2 tbsp. Chang's Gluten Free Tamari Light Soy Sauce
- 1 tsp. sugar
- ½ tsp. salt
- 1 cup shredded Chinese cabbage
- 1 bunch enoki mushrooms, bottom of stems removed
- 6-8 oyster mushrooms, halved or left whole if small
- 2 packets Chang's Traditional Super Lo-Cal Noodles or Chang's Super Lo-Cal Wide Noodles, rinsed in cold water
Method:
- Combine all the meatball ingredients, except the oil, in either a food processor or by hand in a bowl.
- Allow meat to rest in the fridge for ten minutes. Remove from the fridge, and roll meat into walnut-sized balls with your hands.
- Heat the oil in a wok or frying pan and brown the meatballs in batches, turning occasionally until just cooked through. Once done, drain meatballs on a paper towel. At this point, meatballs can be refrigerated and used later.
- Heat the stock and add the Chang’s Light Soy Sauce, stock and sugar and bring to the boil. Add the Chinese cabbage, Chang’s Super Lo-Cal Noodles and reserved meatballs and simmer very gently for five minutes.
- Finally, add the mushrooms and simmer for just another minute.
- Ladle soup into individual bowls or serve from a soup tureen, sprinkling over a handful of sliced dark green spring onion tops.