Bakso, Indonesia Meatball

Meatballs is a beef soup with vermicelli noodles, yellow noodles and bean sprouts. How to eat meatballs is with tomato sauce, chili sauce, and soy sauce and a little vinegar. It was savory and spicy.

Soup Ingredients:

• 3 litre of homemade beef stock
• 3 garlic clove, crushed
• 1 stalk celery
• 1 spring onion, chopped
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp beef stock powder
• Salt as needed

Meatball Ingredients:

• 250 gr Beef Mince
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp garlic powder/garlic paste
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1 tbs salt
• 2 tbs tapioca starch
• 1 tbs corn starch
• 1 tsp baking powder (this will make the meatball bouncy)
• 1 tsp baking soda (this will make the meatball grow bigger)
• a pinch of sugar (it's very optional, but sugar will increase the taste)

1. Put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl.
2. Mix all the mixture until well mixed. Wrap the bowl with a plastic wrap.
3. Shape it like a small ball. Directly put the ball mix into the hot water.
4. After all the mixture has been shaped as a ball in the hot water, turn on the stove again in medium heat, then bring to a boil. Leave to cook for about 5 minutes after it comes to a boil.
5. Prepare Bakso Soup and put meatball, noodle, and celery in the hot soup.


Bakso is ready to be enjoyed.