🍅 Chinese-style stuffed tomatoes

4 servings · prep 25 min · cook 20 min

Ingredients

• 6 firm tomatoes
• 300 g ground pork
• 3 spring onions
• 1 piece of ginger
• 2 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1 tbsp cornstarch
• 1 egg
• Salt, white pepper

Method

1. Cut a lid off each tomato and hollow them out with a teaspoon, keeping the flesh.
2. Mix the pork with the chopped spring onion and ginger, soy sauce, sesame oil, egg and cornstarch.
3. Stir the filling in one direction for 3 min: that beating is what makes it springy and tender.
4. Fill the tomatoes generously, doming the top.
5. Set them in a steamer basket and steam 18 min, covered.
6. Reduce the reserved flesh with the steaming juices into a sauce, and spoon it over the tomatoes.

Adapted from Tian Tian (YouTube)

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