Lion Head meatballs Recipe | Food Network UK

Ingredients

• 500g ground beef
• 60ml Shaohsing rice wine or dry sherry
• 2 spring onions, finely chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2 tbsps freshly grated ginger
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 1/2 tsp sea salt
• Pinch freshly cracked white pepper
• 100ml groundnut oil
• 600ml vegetable stock
• 300g Chinese cabbage, quartered lengthwise from leaf to stem end
• 3 dried chinese mushrooms, porcini mushrooms or shiitake mushrooms
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tbsp cornflour, blended with 2 tbsp cold water (optional)
• Sea salt and freshly cracked white pepper
• 2 large spring onions, sliced
• 300g glutinous rice, rinsed
• 530ml water