Sweet and Sour Meatballs

Submitted by ratherbeswimmin

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1⁄4 cup seasoned dry bread crumb
• salt (I use 1/2 t.)
• pepper (I use 1/4 t.)
• 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 lb ground beef
• 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple chunks
• 1⁄4 cup cider vinegar
• 1⁄4 cup packed brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 cup sliced carrot
• 1 medium green bell pepper, julienned
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• hot cooked rice

directions

1. In a mixing bowl, add the first 5 ingredients; stir to mix.
2. Add the ground beef and using your hands, mix the ingredients well.
3. Shape mixture into 1 inch meatballs.
4. Spray large skillet with cooking spray and brown meatballs, over medium heat, until no longer pink; drain.
5. Drain pineapple, reserving juice; set pineapple aside.
6. Add water to juice to measure 1 cup.
7. Add vinegar, brown sugar, and soy sauce; stir to mix and then pour over meatballs.
8. Add carrots.
9. Bring to a boil; lower heat; cover and simmer for 5-8 minutes or until carrots are crisp-tender.
10. Stir in green pepper and pineapple; cover and simmer 5 minutes more or until pepper is crisp-tender.
11. Mix together the cornstarch and water until smooth; stir into meatball mixture.
12. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened.
13. Serve over rice.

Reviews

[melsmom]

Great recipe. DH loved this dish. I made a couple of changes to the recipe. I added 1/2 cup fine chopped onion and 1/4 tsp. garlic powder to the ground beef mixture. I also added a large onion, cut in chunks to the sauce.

 

[petlover]

Good meatball recipe-I served this over white rice and I loved it-my son thought that the sauce was too thin-thanks for this good recipe

 

[NeverEnoughTime]

Super recipe, easy to follow. I substituted garlic salt for plain salt, and added onions, decreased brown sugar to 3 T and added 1 T of ketchup to the sauce. Turned out really well, plan to make again.

 

[uncle rae rae]

Very good. The meatballs fell apart on me in the final stages but it still tasted great.