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Brilio.net - Chicken meatballs are one of many people's favorite dishes. The taste is delicious and the texture is chewy, it can be used as a daily menu. One of the secrets behind the chewy texture of meatballs is the use of flour as the basic ingredient. Flour, especially tapioca or sago, plays an important role in producing the chewiness and integrity of chicken meatballs . Meatballs are not only chewy, but also do not fall apart easily when cooked or boiled.
Tapioca flour or sago flour has elastic properties that help bind the minced chicken and other ingredients into a homogeneous dough. When this dough is boiled or cooked, the flour expands and gives the chicken meatballs their distinctive chewy structure. This process not only makes the meatballs more delicious when bitten, but also ensures that the meatballs remain intact during the cooking process, whether in soup, fried, or steamed.
Unfortunately, the use of flour in these meatballs often makes some people think twice before consuming them. Not without reason, some people who are on a diet or maintain a certain diet will usually avoid foods that contain flour, including meatballs. Therefore, they tend to choose other healthier food alternatives.
Even if you are on a diet, you can still eat these chicken meatballs. There is a recipe for chicken meatballs without flour that can be made at home. This recipe was once shared by Instagram user @fevepar. Through one of the videos uploaded, she admitted to only using one additional ingredient to bind the other ingredients so that the resulting meatballs are chewier and do not fall apart easily.
As reported by BrilioFood from Instagram @fevepar on Wednesday (10/23), the additional ingredient in question is tofu. More precisely, he uses white tofu which has a dense and dry texture. Well, this tofu texture will replace the flour that can make the meatball dough denser.
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For further processing, chop 2 cloves of garlic and 1 stalk of spring onion. Then mix with 150 grams of tofu, 200 grams of chicken breast, and 65 grams of egg white. Add 6 cloves of shallots and 2 cloves of garlic that have been sauteed with a little oil.
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As the seasoning, he uses 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp mushroom broth, pepper, and 1/2 tsp diet sugar. After that, chop all the ingredients until they are really smooth. Well, the finished meatball dough can be molded immediately.
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Prepare 2 liters of water in a pan first. Then boil until boiling and reduce heat. Then mold the meatball dough and immediately put it into the water that has been heated earlier. Mold until the dough runs out, then boil until it floats.
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Well, the floating meatballs can be eaten directly with sauce. Or they can also be cooked again with a savory broth. Even though they don't use flour, these meatballs are really chewy and delicious.
(brl/lut)
