Sweet And Sour Meatballs
From lor 17 years ago
- 45 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Easy to make and handy when you're in a hurry. The recipe calls for pork but you could use any ground meat you like or a mixture of meats.
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 lbs. lean minced pork (you could use beef, turkey, chicken, lamb or a combo of your favourites) shopping list
- 2-3 garlic gloves, minced shopping list
- 1 oz./25g fresh breadcrumbs or seasoned bought shopping list
- salt and pepper to taste shopping list
- 1 teaspoon of dried mixed herbs shopping list
- 1-1/2 teaspoons dried parsley shopping list
- 1 egg, beaten shopping list
- flour for coating shopping list
- fat for shallow frying shopping list
- 1 large red pepper, cored, seeded and sliced shopping list
- 7 oz./200g canned crushed pineapple but rings or tidbits can be chopped shopping list
- 3 oz./75g brown sugar shopping list
- 4 Tablespoons cider vinegar shopping list
- 2 Tablespoons soy sauce shopping list
- 1/2 pint/300ml stock (vegetable stock is fine) shopping list
- 1 Tablespoon cornflour shopping list
How to make it
- Mix together the pork, garlic, breadcrumbs, salt, pepper and herbs and bind with the egg.
- Shape into 16 balls and coat lightly with flour.
- Shallow fry for 5 minutes until golden brown on all sides.
- Drain well and place in a baking dish.
- Put the red pepper, pineapple, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, stock, salt and pepper in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
- Dissolve the cornflour in a little water and add to the pan.
- Simmer, stirring until thickened.
- Pour this sauce over the pork balls, then cover the dish and bake in a preheated oven (350F/180C, Gas Mark 4) for 45 minutes.
- Serve hot with boiled rice or noodles.
- This recipe can be an appetizer or a main course meal.
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I love your recipe. I don't understand when there are people who have viewed a recipe but they don't add a quick comment or two? Anyway, great recipe and thank you very much!
laadeedaa
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I love sweet and sour meatballs. I'm entertaining this weekend and these will be served as appetizers. Thanks for a great recipe.
mishi
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Excellent recipe and I will be making these with a blend of ground turkey and chicken. I'll let you know how they turn out.
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