Why Hello, Friends!
2023 already, hey. Crazy (for me). 2022 felt too short somehow ? Anyways! Happy New Year, everyone. Hopefully this will be a great and kind one ????
My household has been making all sorts of meatballs lately. We have been making a lot of meatballs soups for this Winter. Beef meatballs, chicken meatballs, combination of beef and chicken, chicken and turkey. Tons of meatballs (soups) ? Sometimes we serve it with rice, other time with glass noodle, most of the time as is, just the meatballs soup ???? Yep. Missing Indonesia much, so meatballs help big time ? In Indonesia we call them bakso ?
For today’s recipe sharing, it is chicken and turkey meatballs. So, so, good. I can eat meatballs as is, no soup, no rice, etc just the meatballs coated in Sriracha and sweet soy sauce (kecap manis). Stir in peanut sauce (sambal kacang), even better ????
Meatballs
500 g ground chicken
500 g ground turkey
125 g tapioca flour
A handful ice cubes
2 tbsp ready to use fried garlic (from Wholesale Club Canada)
2 tbsp ready to use fried onion (from Walmart)
At least 3 heaping tbsp chicken bouillon powder
2 tsp sesame oil
A super generous pinch white pepper powder
1 tsp MSG for umami, if you like!
A generous pinch garlic powder
A generous pinch onion powder
Soup
Enough water
1 tbsp garlic powder
1/2 tbsp onion powder
3-4 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
1 tsp MSG
A pinch white pepper powder
Method
Fill up a pot with water up to 3/4 of the pot (you can use broth, but must adjust flavoring – the other ingredients)
Season with the other ingredients, turn on your stove to (super) low heat
In a food processor, mix ground chicken, turkey, and the rest of the ingredients, process into a very fine paste
Spoon paste into your palm, and squeeze paste between thumb and point finger, forming a meatball, scoop out with a spoon.
Drop meatball into the pot. Repeat step until all paste gone.
Turn up heat to medium, and cook meatballs until floating.
You can serve the meatballs with the soup, or you can drain the meatballs, store in the fridge or freeze them up, until ready to be used in any other cooking(s), such as in veggies stir fry, fried rice, fried noodles (chow mein, lo mein, etc), other soups, as filling for spring roll (lumpia) or other savory snacks or finger foods.
Yummo ????
Bakso Ayam
Ingredients
Bakso
- 500 g ground chicken
- 500 g ground turkey
- 125 g tapioca flour
- A handful ice cubes
- 2 tbsp ready to use fried garlic from Wholesale Club Canada
- 2 tbsp ready to use fried onion from Walmart
- At least 3 heaping tbsp chicken bouillon powder
- 2 tsp sesame oil
- A super generous pinch white pepper powder
- 1 tsp MSG for umami if you like!
- A generous pinch garlic powder
- A generous pinch onion powder
Soup
- Enough water
- 1 tbsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tbsp onion powder
- 3-4 tbsp chicken bouillon powder
- 1 tsp MSG
- A pinch white pepper powder
Instructions
- Fill up a pot with water up to 3/4 of the pot (you can use broth, but must adjust flavoring – the other ingredients)
- Season with the other ingredients, turn on your stove to (super) low heat
- In a food processor, mix ground chicken, turkey, and the rest of the ingredients, process into a very fine paste
- Spoon paste into your palm, and squeeze paste between thumb and point finger, forming a meatball, scoop out with a spoon.
- Drop meatball into the pot. Repeat step until all paste gone.
- Turn up heat to medium, and cook meatballs until floating.
- You can serve the meatballs with the soup, or you can drain the meatballs, store in the fridge or freeze them up, until ready to be used in any other cooking(s), such as in veggies stir fry, fried rice, fried noodles (chow mein, lo mein, etc), other soups, as filling for spring roll (lumpia) or other savory snacks or finger foods.
