First you will need a sharp Chinese cleaver. And then of course ground meat of your choice, pork, beef, chicken, etc. You will have to cut the meat into small pieces and then use your cleaver to chop on it. Just chop through the meat, flip it and chop again, flip the meat again and chop again until you have worked all your muscles. In the olden days, the butcher used two big cleavers to chop ground meat for his customers. This is really a good hand exercise for anyone who wants to try. Haha...
My ground pork is done after multiple times of flipping the meat and chopping. Now it's ready for seasoning for my pork balls noodle soup later.
Serving up my homemade pork balls with glass noodle (tang hoon) soup!
Who wants to try my pork ball with Thai chili? :P
I cooked my broth with 2 chicken drumsticks, 1 baked chicken cavity, 1/4 cup of yellow beans, shrimp shells that I saved, dried Chinese mushroom stems (I saved this for making broth too), 1 whole large yellow onion and 3 carrots hence my broth turned out very sweet and flavorful.
Great knife work! Is it tiring? ;)
ReplyDeleteit's much cleaner to chop your own, coz u can wash the meat b4 chopping ... but I'm always so lazy ... heh ... wah I lurve tang hoon soup!
ReplyDeleteoh! I love minced pork with bee hoon soup!!..thai's chili is a must for me!! a bowl for me please...
ReplyDeleteHow are you?
ReplyDeleteLong time, I didn't visit your blog.
I love meatballs soup a.k.a bakso :)
although we can easily get ground/minced meat at the supermarket now, I still minced the meat myself when cooking for Ryan.
ReplyDeleteCos can control the fat in the meat. But me not so hardworking like you, I used the food processor, heehee.
wow... that easy huh... thanks for sharing... will definitely make my own ground meat... :)
ReplyDeleteHaha, that's how my mum make her ground meat ;-)) That's why mum has small arms .. haha
ReplyDeleteWah... old school! :D Great knife work there. My grandma and parents said that minced meat chopped the old fashion way has more 'bite' to them, different texture compared to commercial minced meat. I make my own meatballs too for noodle soup, very similar to yours. I love that stock you've got there!
ReplyDeletei must agree that manual 'meat mincing' is tiring coz i have done it too. however, i find that the manual minced meat taste sweeter and bouncier compared to machine minced meat. hmmm.. or is it psychological? =p
ReplyDeletearh yes, DHL over a bowl of minced pork with my fav carrot & broccoli, pls. i am a soupy person too.
cheers,
yan
Haha js, not really actually。
ReplyDeleteYes noobcook. I'm lazy too! :P Actually I read that best not to wash it since the bacteria will spread to your sink. When you cook it well done, all the bacteria will be killed anyway.
Handed one to Beachlover! Enjoy! hehe...
I'm fine, thanks Indo-eats. Come visit often ok! ;)
Yah hor Peony. Have not thought of food processor, perhaps too heavy to carry out from my pantry. :P
You're welcome mikky. Yup, that easy, try it yourself!
Haha Lao Cha, good for your mom!
Thanks Nilmandra! I love to add yellow bean into my stock, makes it sweeter!
Yan, perhaps I only mince a little at a time, just enough for my family, so it's not that tiring. :P
*DHL a bowl to Yan* Enjoy!
Haha, wow. I should try that sometime but must first get a cleaver. The butcher I go to knows I'm particular. And I make sure that there's not a bit of fat in it before I buy it, and he'll then put it through the grinder, but if homemade ones make bouncier meatballs, it's worth a try.
ReplyDeleteI too uses minced meat to make my own meatballs but I uses the minced meat from supermarket.
ReplyDeleteToo lazy to mince my own meat... :)
I know this is very tasty tang hoon soup! Yumz!
ReplyDeletei love the idea of showing children how things work before the meat mincer (do they call it that? hehe)
ReplyDeletewell done!
This looks really good. What goes into your pork meat balls ?
ReplyDeleteSig, it's worth a try to see the difference!
ReplyDeleteKerry, I only minced my own when I have pork at home and didn't go to the supermarket. But making our own minced chicken is so much cheaper.
Indeed Tigerfish, thanks!
Thanks Rita.
Thanks petite fleur. I seasoned my minced pork with hoisin sauce, sesame oil, salt, garlic powder and white pepper, then stirred until it turned gluey and sticked together.
I make my own minced meat sometimes, as I prefer to control the amount of fats in it. But it can be quite tiring, do you think so? :-)
ReplyDeleteWhen you learn how to make sloppy Joes from scratch, you can customize the ground meat
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