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Steamed Ground Pork with Salted Duck Eggs
This Chinese steamed ground pork dish with salted duck eggs recipe is a classic and is very easy, with plenty of flavors and perfect with steamed rice or plain congee.
Chinese steamed ground pork is probably the dish that makes me think of my Mom the most every time I am not feeling well. She will diligently make this dish and serve it with plain congee. It’s a dish that is guaranteed to make me feel instantly better and healthier. :)
For the plainest execution of the recipe, you can get away without any salted duck eggs and it will still be a delicious dish. But Mom’s version has these salted duck eggs, so I always make mine following her recipe.
Ingredients for Chinese steamed ground pork with salted duck eggs.
This recipe needs ground pork, light soy sauce, sesame oil, tapioca starch, ground white pepper, sugar, water, and boiled salted duck eggs.
Salted duck eggs
In a typical Chinese/Asian market, you should be able to get raw duck eggs, raw salted duck eggs, and boiled salted duck eggs. Be sure to pick up boiled salted duck eggs for this recipe.
If you do pick up raw salted duck eggs, please follow my guide to change the recipe to use this instead of boiled salted duck eggs.
Light soy sauce
There are two varieties of Chinese soy sauce: light soy sauce and dark soy sauce. Every time you see a recipe for a Chinese dish that simply calls for soy sauce, it usually means light soy sauce.
My favorite brand for light soy sauce is Pearl River Bridge and Kimlan, but you can use Kikkoman soy sauce too.
Step-by-step to prepare this steamed pork dish
Mix ground pork, light soy sauce, sesame oil, tapioca starch/cornstarch, ground white pepper, sugar, and water. Please stir until the ground pork mixture has absorbed all the water and there is no standing liquid.
Add in chopped salted duck eggs and stir to distribute the eggs evenly in the ground pork mixture. Transfer to a steam-proof bowl.
Prepare a steamer over medium heat. Make sure there is enough boiling water for a 30 minutes steam and make sure there is plenty of steam before you start steaming. Steam the ground pork mixture over medium heat for 30 minutes.
Remove the steamed pork from the steamer. Garnish with chopped scallions and/or cilantro, and serve hot with steamed white rice or plain congee.
Adapting the recipe to use raw salted duck eggs
Crack open salted duck eggs and separate the egg whites from the egg yolks. Gently pinch with your fingers to break the egg yolks into smaller pieces.
Mix ground pork, light soy sauce, sesame oil, tapioca starch/cornstarch, ground white pepper, sugar, and water. Stir until all the water is fully absorbed by the ground pork mixture and there is no standing liquid. Then transfer to a steam-proof bowl.
Pour the egg whites over the ground pork mixture. Scatter and press the egg yolk pieces into the ground pork mixture as evenly as possible.
Again, steam the ground pork for 30 minutes in a steamer.
Steamed Ground Pork with Salted Duck Eggs
Ingredients
- 450 gram (1 lb.) ground pork
- 2 tablespoon light soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 2 teaspoon tapioca starch/cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 2-3 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 boiled salted duck eggs, chopped
- scallions and/or cilantro, garnish (optional)
Instructions
- Mix ground pork, light soy sauce, sesame oil, tapioca starch/cornstarch, ground white pepper, sugar, and water. Please stir until the ground pork mixture has absorbed all the water and there is no standing liquid.
- Add in chopped salted duck eggs and stir to distribute the eggs evenly in the ground pork mixture. Transfer to a steam-proof bowl.
- Prepare a steamer over medium heat. Make sure there is enough boiling water for a 30 minutes steam and make sure there is plenty of steam before you start steaming. Steam the ground pork mixture over medium heat for 30 minutes.
- Remove the steamed pork from the steamer. Garnish with chopped scallions and/or cilantro, and serve hot with steamed white rice or plain congee.
Comments
LOVE the flavors in this and ground meat recipes are always needed over here :) so easy!
Wow this is such a unique recipe! Love it!
I love special, authentic, foreign recipes like this! Can’t wait to try it - and to cook with duck eggs for the first time ever!
I've never tried ground pork, but this dish looks super flavorful!
Love all the different flavors in this dish! Making again soon.
This Chinese steamed ground pork dish with salted duck eggs recipe was off the chain delish! My husband was a little nervous eating it but one bite later he was in love with your recipe. Thanks for the awesome instructions and tips. I will be saving this to make again soon.
This ground pork dish looks absolutely delicious and something my family would enjoy for dinner every time! Love salted duck eggs!
Oh my goodness, this is so unique ... and I was prepared for it to be really hard to make, but it's actually so very simple! Thanks for the tip to serve it with congee, too - that's a great idea!
Thank you for sharing this with us. Love that it brings memories of your mothers love. It sounds like a very comforting and delicious dish.
Loved this! So easy but so full of flavour. I have made steamed pork dishes before but they were never this good. Its the salted duck eggs that make all the difference. I never used them before but now I am hunting down more recipes, they are so great. Thank you for bringing them into my life ;-)
PS: I reduced the cooking time to 20 min
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