If it is a meatball at room temperature, it takes about 5 to 8 minutes to boil it in boiling water. Frozen meatballs need to be thawed in water first, and then boiled in a pot, which takes about 12 minutes. When making meatballs, you can use chopsticks to judge whether the meatballs are cooked or not. If the meat in the meatball changes color, it is cooked. If it doesn't change, put it in the pot and cook for a while until the meatballs float.
Maruko is also confidential. If it is a well-done crab steak, small ham sausage, etc. It's easier to cook. But if it is meatballs or frozen meatballs, it needs to be thawed before cooking, so as to ensure cooking.
Maruko buying skills
1. It is not recommended to buy miscellaneous hot pot balls of unknown origin or products with incomplete product information and no factory packaging. Relatively speaking, regular supermarkets, markets and other sales places have stricter purchase standards and better product quality.
2. The first ingredient in the ingredient list is the main ingredient of hot pot meatballs. It is recommended to buy pot balls with meat as the first ingredient in the ingredient list. There are two kinds of hot pot meatballs on the market recently: prepackaged and bulk.
3. It is suggested to check the label information and choose products with up-to-standard starch content, less additives and simpler ingredients. Take beef balls as an example. The price per catty of beef balls is much lower than that of fresh beef of the same quality, so hot pot balls are not all meat. Considering the taste of the product, starch and some food additives were added in the process of making frozen pellets to increase the elasticity and taste of the pellets.