6 Ways to Make Chewy and Practical Meatballs at Home

Kapanlagi.com - Meatballs have become the most popular dish in the country that is easily found. Warm broth and chewy meatballs satisfy the taste buds with different flavors. How to make chewy, delicious, and practical meatballs at home can even be a choice of meatball consumption according to one's own taste.

Generally, meatball ingredients are made from ground beef, chicken, and fish mixed with various other ingredients. In addition, the texture of the meatballs is usually chewy and delicious, with the dominant taste of meat as the main ingredient. This dish is also combined with broth, noodles, dumplings, and tofu, which enhance the taste of the meatballs and attract many fans.

Meatballs themselves are one of the typical dishes in the country that are quite popular abroad. It is not surprising that in every region in Indonesia, it is very easy to find meatball vendors with their own characteristics. Various variations of meatballs such as egg meatballs, jumbo meatballs, sausage meatballs, and spicy meatballs have successfully aroused the appetite and satisfied the taste buds of meatball lovers.

It turns out that making meatballs is quite easy to practice at home. Of course, by making meatballs at home, it can be more guaranteed and according to one's taste, both in terms of filling and basic ingredients.

So, how to make chewy, delicious, and practical meatballs at home?

The steps to make chewy, delicious, and practical meatballs at home are as follows. Some recipes and ways to make meatballs below can be your choice if you want to make homemade meatballs with guaranteed quality.

1. Beef Meatballs

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Making chewy, delicious, and practical beef meatballs at home is quite easy to practice. Beef meatballs themselves have many enthusiasts with delicious meat flavors. The following are the ingredients for making chewy, delicious, and practical meatballs at home from beef, as sourced from cookpad.com.

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of beef leg meat.

- 110 grams of ice cubes.

- 1/2 tsp baking powder.

- 80 grams of tapioca flour.

- 1 egg.

- Salt, pepper, mushroom seasoning to taste.

- 5 cloves of chopped garlic.

- 1 tsp garlic powder.

- 2 stalks of green onion and celery.

How to make chewy and delicious beef meatballs:

- Clean the beef, cut into cubes and freeze half of it. Then grind the meat and add ice cubes, then grind again.

- Add egg white, seasonings, tapioca flour. Then grind again. Add fried garlic.

- Heat water and turn off the stove. Make meatball balls according to taste and put them into the hot water. Then boil the meatballs again until cooked and floating.

- Prepare water and ice to soak the cooked meatballs to make them more chewy.

- Make meatball broth with ingredients such as salt, pepper, mushroom seasoning, garlic, shallots, green onions, and celery to taste.

- Beef meatballs are ready to be served.

2. Chicken Meatballs

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The next way to make chewy, delicious, and practical homemade meatballs is by using chicken as the main ingredient. Not inferior to beef meatballs, chicken meatballs also have a delicious and appetizing taste. The following is a recipe for making chewy, delicious, and practical homemade meatballs using chicken meat as sourced from brilicious.brilio.net by Instagram account @mrs.wijaya.

Ingredients:

- 500 grams of chicken breast fillet, cut into pieces.

- 100 grams of small ice cubes.

- 2 egg whites.

- 1 full teaspoon of garlic powder.

- 1 teaspoon of mushroom seasoning.

- 1 teaspoon of baking powder.

- 1 teaspoon of salt or to taste.

- 50 grams of sago flour.

- 50 grams of tapioca flour.

- 2 liters of water.

Broth ingredients:

- 1.5 liters of chicken broth.

- 5 cloves of garlic, mashed.

- 1 stalk of spring onion (sliced).

- 1 teaspoon of ground pepper.

- salt and mushroom seasoning to taste.

- cooking oil.

Complementary:

- boiled yellow noodles.

- sliced mustard greens.

- sliced celery.

- sliced red onion leaves.

- tomato sauce.

- sweet soy sauce.

- fried shallots.

- lime.

- sambal (bird's eye chili, boiled and mashed).

How to make meatballs:

- To make meatballs, first grind the chicken and ice cubes using a food processor or other tool.

- Add egg whites, garlic, mushroom seasoning, baking powder, and salt.

- Add sago flour and tapioca flour, grind again. Pour into a container.

- Shape the dough into round balls, put them into boiling water. Cook and drain.

- To make the meatball broth, boil the chicken broth. Sauté garlic, spring onion, and ground pepper, then add to the boiling broth.

- Add the meatballs, season with salt and mushroom seasoning.

- Arrange the noodles and mustard greens in a bowl. Pour meatballs and broth over them. Add other complements according to taste.

3. Mushroom Meatballs

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The next way to make chewy, delicious and practical homemade meatballs is by using mushrooms and chicken. The combination of these two ingredients produces delicious meatballs to be consumed. The following is how to make mushroom meatballs from brilicious.brilio.net by Instagram account @mariaulfah135.

Ingredients:

- 250 grams of chicken meat, ground

- 50 grams of wood ear mushrooms, thinly sliced

- 30 grams of boiled vermicelli, cut short

- 1 carrot, grated

- 1 egg white

- 1 teaspoon of garlic powder

- salt

- sugar and pepper powder to taste

- enough water

How to make mushroom meatballs:

- Mix and grind the chicken, carrot, mushrooms, vermicelli, egg white, salt, garlic, sugar, and pepper powder.

- Shape the dough into round meatballs and put them into boiling water. Cook until done and floating. Then drain the meatballs.

- To make the broth, sauté shallots and garlic. Pour in the leftover broth from boiling the meatballs.

- Add salt, sugar, green onions, and pepper powder. Add carrots and cabbage, cook until done.

- Chicken mushroom meatballs are ready to be served.

4. Special Fish Meatballs

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The next recipe for making chewy, delicious, and practical homemade fish meatballs is made from fish. Just like the previous recipe, fish meatballs have a delicious taste and a distinctive aroma of fish meat that stimulates the appetite. The following is the recipe for making fish meatballs sourced from the Instagram account @annekareseprumahan.

Ingredients:

- 250 grams of ground mackerel fish.

- 1 egg white.

- 30 grams of tapioca flour.

- 2 cloves of garlic, minced.

- Salt, sugar to taste.

- 8 ice cubes, crushed with a food chopper along with the fish meat.

- Tofu skin to wrap Fukien meatballs.

- Triangular plastic for shaping the dough.

How to make fish meatballs:

- Mix the ground fish meat, ice cubes, salt, sugar, minced garlic, and egg white, then knead until smooth.

- Add tapioca flour and knead again until smooth and the dough becomes shiny.

- Prepare the tofu skin and scissors, then put the dough into the triangular plastic. Clean the surface of the tofu skin with special food tissue.

- Cut the tip of the plastic, then put the dough into the tofu skin and roll it slowly.

- Cut according to taste.

- Then fry the Fukien meatballs in hot oil over medium heat.

- Remove and drain.

- Prepare the broth with village chicken broth. Add salt, pepper, then put in the fish meatballs and Fukien meatballs. Add green onions, fried garlic.

- Fish meatballs are ready to be served.

5. Fiber Meatballs

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The next way to make chewy, delicious, and practical homemade meatballs is fiber meatballs. This meatball variant can be a delicious choice if you are bored with trying meatballs as usual. Here's how to make fiber meatballs sourced from brilicious.brilio.net by Instagram account @lusiaa_vvi.

Ingredients:

- 350 grams of chicken meat

- 200 grams of shrimp

- 1 carrot

- 3 pieces of wood ear mushrooms

- 50 grams of vermicelli

- 1 tablespoon of tapioca starch

- 2 egg whites

- 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce

- 1 tablespoon of sesame oil

- Salt, broth powder, sugar, and water as needed

How to make meatballs:

- Peel and dice the carrot.

- Soak the vermicelli in warm water. Cut it short.

- Soak the wood ear mushrooms, cut them small.

- Dice the chicken meat, grind it with garlic. Add egg whites and tapioca starch. Grind it again.

- Add shrimp, oyster sauce, sesame oil, salt, broth powder, and a little sugar. Grind it again.

- Add carrot, wood ear mushrooms, and vermicelli. Stir well.

- Shape the dough into balls, boil until cooked and float.

- Fiber meatballs are ready to be served.

6. Fried Meatballs

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How to make fried meatballs is quite easy to practice. The recipe for fried meatballs is as follows as sourced from cookpad.com by Vina Himatur.

Ingredients:

- 200 grams of chicken fillet.

- 100 grams of tapioca flour.

- 5 cloves of garlic, mashed.

- 1 tablespoon of fried shallots.

- 1 egg.

- 2 stalks of spring onion, thinly sliced.

- 50 ml of cold water.

- 1.2 teaspoons of baking powder.

- 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.

- 2 tablespoons of sugar.

- 1 tablespoon of salt.

- Sufficient frying oil.

Sauce ingredients:

- 2 cloves of garlic, mashed.

- 50 ml of water.

- 3 tablespoons of chili sauce.

- 1 tablespoon of tapioca flour, dissolve with a little water.

- 1 tablespoon of sugar.

- 1 teaspoon of salt.

How to make fried meatballs:

- Cut the chicken into large dice. Mince the chicken and fried shallots with a chopper or blender.

- Put all meatball ingredients except flour, baking powder, and baking soda into the ground chicken. Then mix well.

- Add tapioca flour, baking powder, baking soda, and mix well.

- Heat the frying oil, take one spoonful of the mixture, shape it into a ball, and fry it in hot oil over medium heat.

- Once cooked and golden brown, remove and drain.

- Make the sauce by boiling garlic and water. Then add chili sauce and mix well, add sugar, salt, and tapioca flour solution. Cook until boiling.

- Serve the sauce together with the fried meatballs.

That's how to make chewy, delicious, and practical homemade meatballs. Enjoy, KLovers.

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