Home-made Meat+Prawn Balls & Tofu Seaweed Soup

My kids they love soup very much and this Tofu Seaweed Soup with home-made meat + prawn balls are one of their favorite.  Recently, it has been raining everyday and I like to have a bowl of hot soup at this period of time.  I can finished one small bowl of rice with just this soup alone.

This soup are very easy to prepare Unlike most chinese soup which require a longer time to simmer, the actual cooking time of this soup is under 15 minutes.  Just get all the ingredients ready and boil the whole things together before season it with some salt & pepper.  Yeah, the soup are ready to be serve !!

Ingredients :

1.5 liter water 

1 piece of 20cm diameter dried seaweed (紫菜) - cut into smaller pieces

300gm pork belly - minced

200gm shrimp - un-shell & minced

3 tubes of japanese egg tofu - sliced into smaller piece

1 Knorr Ikan Bilis cube - optional

Marinade ingredients (A)

1.5 tbsp light soy sauce
1.5 tbsp corn starch
1.5 tsp Chinese cooking wine
1 tbsp sesame oil

1 egg white
dash of white pepper

Methods:

• Marinade the minced pork & shrimp with ingredients (A) for 30mins.  Shape it into individual meat balls (each about 1 tbsp size).  Set aside.
• Bring water to boil, add in the Knorr Ikan Bilis cube (if available).  Add in the meat balls one at a time and make sure they are not stick together.  Let it cook for 3 mins.
• Rinse the seaweed on running tap water before add it into the soup, cook for a few second.
• Lastly, place in the egg tofu and turn off the heat.
• Season it with some salt & pepper to taste.
• Garnish it with some green onion & serve warm.

AMY