Vegetarian shrimp balls and vegetarian meatballs will enrich the delicious dishes for your family. Today, TasteVN will join you into the kitchen to make this delicious vegetarian dish!
1. Vegetarian shrimp balls
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Preparation
30 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Vegetarian shrimp balls For 2 – 3 people
Vegetarian ham 100 gr Pumpkin 100 gr Tapioca flour 100 gr Wheat flour 50 gr Sugar 1 teaspoon Vegetarian seasoning 1 teaspoon Pepper 1 teaspoon Salt 1/3 teaspoon Chopped green onion 1 stalk Cooking oil 200 ml
How to choose delicious, sweet, and sticky pumpkin:
In general, you should choose pumpkins that are heavy, deep orange in color, firm, with little flesh, solid in hand, and have smooth skin without any spots or black marks, not bruised or rotten. Additionally, you should select those with a stem length of about 2 – 5 cm because those with shorter stems may spoil faster.
- The round pumpkin is naturally cut into relatively even sections, with a hard rind that is orange-yellow or mixed with dark green when ripe, yellow flesh, sweet and fragrant taste, and relatively sticky texture, suitable for making soups.
- For the gourd pumpkin, choose mature ones with skin that is a mix of green and orange-yellow, a hard rind, and lighter yellow flesh compared to round pumpkins. Gourd pumpkins are much softer and have a sweet, rich flavor, making them suitable for cooking desserts, blending into cake ingredients, or making nutritious pumpkin milk for the whole family.
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How to make Vegetarian Shrimp Balls
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Prepare the ingredients
Peel the pumpkin, remove the seeds, wash it clean, and then cut it into thin slices as shown. After that, put it into a pot and steam until soft. Once cooked, take the pumpkin out and mash it.
Chop the green onions.
Cut the vegetarian ham (ham chay) into small cubes as shown.
Tip for quickly peeling pumpkin:
- Use a sharp peeler to remove the skin around the pumpkin and hold the pumpkin firmly with the other hand.
- If your peeler is not sharp enough or you don’t have one, you can cut the pumpkin in half horizontally and then use a regular knife to peel the skin vertically.
- Use a knife to cut the pumpkin in half. Then continue cutting each half into 3 – 4 pieces depending on the size of the pumpkin.
- Use a spoon to scrape out the flesh inside or gently use a knife to separate the flesh.
- Finally, just cut to the desired size and prepare the dish.
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Pound vegetarian shrimp
Put the chopped vegetarian shrimp into the mortar and pound it until it’s fine.
Tip:
You can also put the shrimp in a blender to save time, however, when pounding, the vegetarian shrimp will be more fragrant and chewy.
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Mix the mixture
Add the pounded pumpkin into the vegetarian shrimp, add the chopped onion and tapioca flour into the bowl.
Next, add 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of vegetarian seasoning, 1 teaspoon of pepper, and 1/3 teaspoon of salt into the mixture, and mix well.
Knead the mixture until it is even and smooth.
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Shape into balls
After mixing, shape the mixture into round balls of desired size.
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Steamed shrimp balls
Prepare a pot of boiling water to steam the shrimp balls.
Put the shrimp balls into the pot and steam over medium heat for about 5 minutes. After that, you take them out.
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Fried shrimp balls
Take the steamed shrimp balls into a bowl, add about 50g of flour to the bowl, and roll evenly so that the flour sticks around the shrimp ball.
Heat a pan over medium heat, add about 200ml of cooking oil, when the oil is hot, add the shrimp balls and fry until golden brown.
Remove the shrimp balls and place them on paper towels to absorb the oil.
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Finished product
Vegetarian shrimp balls are delicious, rich, and naturally sweet with pumpkin, chewy and crispy, truly attractive, right? You can enjoy it with a bit of chili sauce to enhance the flavor!
2. Vegetarian meatballs
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Preparation
30 minutes
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Processing
30 minutes
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Difficulty level
Easy
Ingredients for Vegetarian Meatballs For 2 – 3 people
Vegetarian Ham 150 gr Cassava 50 gr Wood Ear Mushrooms 10 gr Tapioca Starch 2 tablespoons Sugar 1 teaspoon Seasoning Powder 1 teaspoon Pepper 1 teaspoon Green Onions 1 stalk Cooking Oil 200 ml
Image of Ingredients:
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How to Prepare Vegetarian Meatballs
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Prepare the Ingredients
Soak the white wood ear mushrooms in water until they soften, cut off the stems, then shred them.
Chop the green onions.
Peel the cassava and dice it.
Dice the vegetarian ham as shown.
Tips for Soaking Dried Wood Ear Mushrooms Properly:
- Soak the dried wood ear mushrooms for about 3 – 4 hours until they soften, avoid soaking too long or leaving them overnight, which can produce many toxins in the mushrooms that are harmful to health.
- Do not use hot water to soak the mushrooms for quicker softening. Although the mushrooms soften faster in cold water, the morpholine in the mushrooms does not have enough time to neutralize, which is not safe.
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Pounding the ingredients together
Add the chopped vegetarian hem into the mortar, pound slowly until smooth, then add the mushrooms in parts and pound until finely ground.
Add the chopped green onions and pound lightly once more, then transfer the mixture to a bowl.
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Mixing the dough
Add 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning, 1 teaspoon of pepper, and 2 tablespoons of tapioca flour into the bowl, and mix the ingredients well.
Knead the mixture for about 15 minutes to make the dish more chewy and delicious.
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Shaping the balls
Scoop a small amount of dough and flatten it out, place the chopped cassava in the center, then shape it back into a round ball as shown.
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Frying the meatballs
Place a pan on the stove, add about 200ml of cooking oil, turn on the heat to low to heat the oil, then add the meatballs and fry until golden brown on all sides.
Take the meatballs out and enjoy!
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Final Product
Delicious vegetarian meatballs that are really simple to make. The chewy and tasty meat, along with the crunchy and sweet cassava, adds a rich flavor that is truly appealing. You can eat it with a bit of chili sauce to enhance the taste.
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It’s not hard to make vegetarian shrimp and vegetarian meatballs that are appealing, right? Let’s get into the kitchen right away, and I wish you success!
*Refer to the images and recipe from the YouTube channel Bà Mẹ Quê
