Steamed Pork Patty with Salted Duck Egg

Adapted from several internet recipes.

For starters, a salted duck egg is very salty, so if you never use salt in cooking or have to limit your salt intake you will want to take a miss on this recipe. This recipe was originally written using a raw salted duck egg, which I have never seen, only the had boiled variety, but I will explain how to use each type. This is a very common Chinese dish, on my to cook list.

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 18

Total Time 38

Course Lunch, Main Dish

Cuisine Chinese

Servings servings

Equipment

Rice Cooker with Steamer Tray
Steamer

Ingredients

250 grams minced pork, (8 oz)
1 raw salted duck egg, only if using a raw egg

For the Marinade

pinch baking soda
2 teaspoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons ginger, very finely slivered or grated
¼ teaspoon white pepper
1½ teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon Shaoxing rice wine
4 drops sesame oil
½ - ¼ cup water, room temperature
1½ teaspoons corn starch

Use this if using a hard boiled salted egg

1 salted duck egg, hard boiled, diced
2-3 roma tomatoes, diced
1 small onion, diced

Instructions

Mix the pork with all the marinade ingredients except the duck egg, water, and corn starch, stir the pork vigorously in one direction only. It is recommended to use a sturdy pair of chopsticks to do this. Then add the corn starch and mix that in well, stirring in the same direction as before.
Slowly add enough room temperature water while stirring, yep, you guessed it, in the same direction as before. until the pork is light and fluffy. Let mixture marinate for 10 minutes or so.
Heat up your steamer to boiling. Pat the pork mixture into a serving dish or plate that will fit in your steamer, you want the mixture to be about ¾ of an inch thick.
If using the raw salted egg, crack the egg over the pork patty putting the yolk in the center. Using a pair of plate lifters, carefully place the plate or dish into the steamer, cover and steam for 18 minutes. Remove from the steamer.
If using a hard boiled salted egg, just place the dish or plate into the steamer without any egg on top, cover and steam for 18 minutes. While the patty is steaming, mix together the diced egg, tomatoes, and onion in a small bowl. When the patty is cooked and removed from the steamer, spoon the egg mixture over the top of the patty.
Typically how this type of dish is served, the plate or dish with the patty is simply placed in the center of the table, the diners each have a plate of rice, and people just scoop up what they would like.

Notes

For the salted duck egg, these sell for 13 Baht each. The pork would be about 35 Baht/250 grams. For 3 servings, this is about 47 cents per serving.