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     Title: Lion's Head Pork
Categories: Pork, Oriental, Meats, Wok
     Yield: 5 servings

     2 c  Pork
     6    Water chestnuts
     2 sl Onion (thick slices)
          Salt
          Pepper
     2 tb Soya sauce
     3 tb Oil
 1 1/2 lb Coarsely shredded celery
          -cabbage (about 4-5 cups)

 1. Take your Chinese cleaver and coarsely dice pork. Dice water
 chestnuts and slices of onion. Place all together on a heavy duty
 meatboard. Mince with your Chinese cleaver until all three of the
 ingredients are blended together into a lump. (It takes 10-15 minutes
 of solid mincing to accomplish this.)

 2. Place minced meat into a bowl. Add salt, pepper, and soya sauce.
 Blend together and form into 4 large meatballs.

 3. Place oil in wok. Heat should be on medium. Heat oil for about 1
 minute. Add pork balls to wok and brown slowly on all sides, about 15
 minutes. Cover wok, reduce heat to low medium and cook pork balls a
 further 30 minutes, lifting cover up from wok from time to time to
 turn meatballs, so that they can be cooked through evenly.

 4. Lift meatballs from wok and reserve on platter. Add celery cabbage
 to wok. There should be some meat juice in the wok, about 1/2 cup or
 so. If there isn't any, add 1/4 cup water to celery cabbage. Stir fry
 about a minute, cover and cook a further 3 minutes, lifting cover
 once or twice to stir cabbage. Place cooked celery cabbage on serving
 platter. Arrange meatballs over cabbage.

 NOTE: Celery cabbage is a winter season vegetable. If it is not
 available in summer, regular cabbage can be substituted. Increase the
 cooking time of the regular cabbage to 7 1/2 minutes.

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