This is an Asian flavour homemade dish, we named it Hedgehog because the Glutinous rice coded at the end leave the finished dish the looking of a Hedgehog. You can be creative about its shape so there can be any name for it, which can add much more fun to your kitchen especially when you in the mood of having fun, or when you have kids on the table
We had fried Mangold as side dish
We made a simple dipping sauce, (soy sauce + spring onion + fresh chilly + a bit of sugar), but we barely use it
We could not have any dessert due to the amount of Hedgehogs we have had eaten
Attention:
Glutinous rice, half cup, should be soaked into water 6-8 hours beforehand;
In the ingredients instruction, we used both table spoon and tea spoon
Ingredients (We made about 24 Hedgehogs, food enough for three):
Minced pork, 300g
Egg, one
Light soy sauce, two table spoon
Water, one table spoon
Potato starch, (if you donot have potato starch, try corn starch instead), two tea spoon
Sugar, one tea spoon
Salt, half tea spoon (depends on your habit)
Sherry, one table spoon
Spring Onions, two
Ginger, small piece
Glutinous rice, half cup, soaked into water 6-8 hours beforehand
Preparations:
Cut the spring onion and ginger into small pieces
Beat the egg lightly, mixing with the liquid ingredients (soy sauce, water, potato starch, sugar, salt, cherry), then adding the rest except the rice (spring onion, ginger, minced meat), and mix them well
Take the rice out from the water, dry it (we put a kitchen towel on a cutting board to dry to rice)
with a table spoon, making balls of the meat (size as your preference)
Roll the meat ball into the rice, so the meat ball will be looking like a rice equipped white hedgehog (or any other shape)
Steam the white balls for 25-35 mins (we used a bamboo steam holder in a pot over boiling water, and we believe that the bamboo holder added a special taste to the food)
“We should make this dish again”, I commented at the end of our dinner
