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Recipe: Niku-dango. Delicious Japanese meatballs. Goes perfectly with rice!

1/25/2015

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You can eat these meatballs warm or cold. My mom used to put it into my bento box for lunch all the time. Nostalgic!

The sauce is a savoury Japanese sauce - almost like teriyaki sauce. It goes perfectly with white rice. 
We call these "niku-dango". Niku is meat, and dangos are the bite sized mochis/dumplings usually eaten as dessert.

Recipe for approximately 10-15 meatballs:
  • 1/2 pound of minced meat (I used turkey)
  • 1/4 large onion
  • 1/4 cup of bread crumbs (panko)
  • 1 tbsp milk
  • potato starch (this makes the sauce more sticky)
  • ★ 1 tbsp of Japanese sake
  • ★ 1 tbsp of Japanese mirin
  • ★ 1 tbsp of Japanese sake
  • ★ 1 tbsp of water
  • ★ 2.5 tbsp of Japanese soy sauce
  • ★ 2 tbsp of sugar


Steps:
  1. In a bowl, mix the panko & milk. Once the crumbs get wet, add the meat and chopped up onions. Mix.
  2. Mix well, then create little bite sized balls. Like a "dango" (bite sized mochi). 
  3. Put them into a bowl or bag with some potato starch. Make sure the balls of meat are covered in them.
  4. Boil the meatballs until cooked thoroughly.
  5. In a separate pan, start cooking the sauce (all the items marked with ★)
  6. Add the boiled meatballs into the pan with the sauce.
  7. Cook on low heat and simmer until the sauce becomes sticky or saucy.


Serve with white Japanese rice. Yum!
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Soon on my #foodblog. Niku-dango! #Japanese meatballs. Link on my profile!

A video posted by Japanese lifestyle blogger (@jpinsider) on Jan 24, 2015 at 4:48pm PST

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