Baked pork balls (no raw food-touched items to wash)

This recipes requires marinating minced pork for at least 1 hour.

Get ready:

Tools for the marinade

Chopping board

Knife

1 ziplock/glad bag (sandwich size)

1/2 tsp

1 tsp

1 tbsp

Tools for after marinating

Aluminium foil (approximately your forearm’s length)

1 tbsp panko breadcrumbs

1 pair of gloves

Tools for baking

Disposable wooden chopsticks

Ingredients for marinade:

1 yellow onion (to be minced)

125g minced pork (store-bought)

1 egg (no fork or whisk needed)

1 tsp minced garlic (I recommend the Lee Kum Kee brand)

1/2 tsp light soy sauce

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/2 tsp sesame oil

Let’s mince:

1 yellow onion

Let’s marinate:

Open the ziplock/glad bag (sandwich size), fold down the opening to make a sack and press down to let it stand.

Add all the marinade ingredients

Press out the air and zip the bag

Massage the bag of ingredients

No fork or whisk stained with raw egg to wash!

Marinade in the fridge for at least 1 hour, up to 12 hours

Let’s get ready to bake:

Pre-heat oven at 200°C for 10 minutes

Get the forearm-length aluminium foil

Fold up the 4 sides of the aluminium foil, making it tray-like

Pour in 1 tbsp Panko breadcrumbs

Wear your gloves

Take out the marinated pork from the fridge and pour them onto the foil

Mix pork and Panko breadcrumbs

Start rolling them into balls, around 3cm by 3cm

Line them up in rows, 1 ball apart

Let’s bake:

Once oven is pre-heated, place the aluminium tray of rolled balls in

Bake for 10 minutes

Get the disposable wooden chopsticks

Open the oven door, flip the pork balls

Bake for another 8 minutes or until porks balls are browned