Scotch Egg 苏格兰炸蛋
A fun recipe with simple ingredients and cooking technique. Different from your everyday dishes.
Equipment
- 7-8" sauce pan
- 3 large bowl
Ingredients
- 11 oz ground pork (sausage pork)
- 4 eggs
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground black pepper
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 4 cups neutral flavor oil
Instructions
- Add water to the sauce pan, and heat to boil
- Add three eggs to the boiling water, keep heat at medium, and boil for 5-6 mins
- Immediately chill the eggs with ice water. After 4-5 mins, gently crack the eggs, and soak them in the water for another 4-5 mins. Carefully peel the eggs.
- Rinse the sauce pan, and dry it on the stove top
- Add the ground pork, salt, garlic powder, and ground pepper to the large bowl
- Mix the pork and seasonings. Divide the mixed pork to portions with each weighing about 4oz (90gram)
- Take one portion of the pork, press gently with your hands to make it flat, place an egg into the flattened pork, and place it on the palm of one hand
- With the help of the other hand, carefully push the pork to wrap around the egg
- Prepare the bowl of flour, egg wash, and bread crumbs
- Dip the egg/meat ball in flour, egg wash, and bread crumbs. Use both hands to gently press the loose bread crumbs firmly stick to the meat ball surface
- Add oil to the sauce pan, and heat it at high heat until the oil is hot
- Add the coated meat balls to the hot oil, and fry for about 5 mins
- Take out the fried egg/meat balls, and place them on paper towel to absorb excess oil
- Ready to serve
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Notes
- -If you want to have fully cooked yolk, boil the egg for 7-8 minutes
- -Use premixed sausage meat from grocer would save your time for preparing the meat