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Ground Pork Cake with Salty Egg (Haam Daan Ju Yoke Beng)

SUBMITTED BY: Mel      PHOTO BY: Danno

"This is an authentic familiar traditional Cantonese home-style dish. It's a recipe mostly passed on within families, and it is rare to find this dish in any Asian restaurant. Trust me though, it is VERY good. It's actually intentionally salty tasting, so it goes very well with white rice. Salty eggs are also called a Haam Daan- you can find them at all Asian supermarkets."
PREP TIME  30 Min
COOK TIME  30 Min
READY IN  1 Hr
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Original recipe yield: 4 servings
    
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INGREDIENTS

  • 1 salted (hard-cooked) duck egg, shelled
  • 1 1/2 pounds ground pork
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon white sugar
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1/2 head broccoli, cut into florets

DIRECTIONS

  1. Separate the white of the salted egg from the yolk. Mash the white with a spoon in a small bowl or blend in a food processor. Divide the yolk into four pieces and set aside.
  2. In a medium heat-proof bowl, mix together the ground pork, salty egg white, regular egg, soy sauce, sugar, salt, pepper and milk using your hands. The milk will make the texture smoother. Let stand for 15 minutes to marinate. In Chinese cooking, this is the best time to prepare the rest of the dishes for the meal and begin cooking rice.
  3. Take the pieces of salted egg yolk and push them into the pork. Smooth the top of the pork until it is flat and even. Arrange broccoli florets around the outer edge of the meat.
  4. Place the bowl in a steamer or in a large pot with a couple inches of water in it. Set over medium-low heat. Steam until the meat is browned throughout, about 30 minutes. Serve with rice. The yolk is the most coveted part of the dish. Ration it carefully! It is very salty, so it is best to eat the yolk a tid bit at a time with a larger bite of meat, mixed with a mouthful of rice.
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Reviewed on Aug. 22, 2006 by mb
very good!! I can't believe I found a recipe for this. My mother's recipe was "a dash of this, a dash of that". I never figured it out. This tastes almost as good as mom's was. Only thing different was I used 2 salted eggs (my mom's homemade) and stirred it raw into the pork, instead of hard boiling first. I'll be making this again.

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Reviewed on Jul. 1, 2006 by Ilovemy4kids
Mashing a hard boiled egg finely is rather hard, so I think it is easier to just mix the raw white of the salted egg together with the rest of the ingredients, and then make a little well on top of the patty and put the salted yolk in and steam them together. Very simple to make, and very delicious too. Thank you for posting.

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Reviewed on Sep. 9, 2007 by FREGA
My husband actualy made this one, I've been baking all day and he wanted to do somthing nice, and I must say it was very nice. Everyone loved it and the kids asked for it in there lunches for school as well! We will definitly be making this again.

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Mel
Home Town: San Marino, California, USA
Living In: Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
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NUTRITION INFORMATION

Servings Per Recipe: 4

Amount Per Serving

Calories: 418

  • Total Fat: 28.3g
  • Cholesterol: 319mg
  • Sodium: 513mg
  • Total Carbs: 3.8g
  •     Dietary Fiber: 1.3g
  • Protein: 35.5g

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