The Procedure of Making Meatballs

The Procedure of Making Meatballs

Meatballs

Ingredients 

·         1 kilo of very fine minced meat (preferably beef)

·         2 eggs

·         300 grams of tapioca-flour

·         4-8 cloves of garlic

·         1 red onion

·         1 teaspoon of white pepper

·         2 teaspoons of salt

These steps are instruction on how to make meatballs:

1.  Mix garlic, red onion, salt, and white pepper in a mortar or mixer.

2.  Mix the spice-mixture with the eggs, the tapioca-flour and the minced meat.

3.  Use your fingers, add a cup of water, and keep on working until the mixture feels soft and smooth.

4.  Boil some water in a rather large pot, at least about 2 liters.

5.  Start rolling the mixture into small meatballs.

6.  Lower the meatballs into the boiling water. When they float up to the surface the meatball are ready to serve.

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VOCABULARIES

1. Meatball: bakso
2. Ingredient: bahan 
3. Mincet meat: daging cincang
4. Garlic: bawang putih
5. Onion: bawang
6. Pepper: lada
7. Mix: campurkan
8. Boil: didihkan
9. Small: kecil
10. Serve: saji
    

GRAMMAR FLASH ! 

Procedure Text

Using procedure text when we tell the reader how to make something.

The characteristic of this text are:

• Use imperative sentence with action verbs
• Use connectives (then, next, etc.) to explain step by step
• Use adverbials (for 5 minutes, or into small piece) to giving detail of something

The structure of this text are:

• Goal : purpose
• Material : ingredients
• Steps : what we have to do

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO?

• List the new words that you find in the text, then write the meaning!
• Make a procedure text about your favourite food!
• Answer the question based on the text!

1.  What is the text talking about?

2.  How many ingredients to make meatnalls?

3.  How many minced meat we need?

4.  What we have to do for the first step?

5.  When is we mix the spice with the meat?

6.  How many liters of water we need to cook the meatballs?

7.  What is we have to do after rolling the mixture into small meatballs?

8.  When is the meatballs ready to serve?

9.  What is the kind of the text?
10.What is the purpose of the text?