Sweet and Sour Meatballs

Sweet and Sour Meatballs- tender, juicy pork meatballs are coated successful a tangy condiment with pineapple chunks, onions, and doorbell peppers. Serve implicit atom for an casual household meal. Also makes a large enactment appetizer.

One Pan Meal

This full look is made successful 1 cookware for easy clean-up. You’ll request a large nonstick skillet. First brownish the meatballs successful the skillet. Set them speech and navigator the bulb and doorbell capsicum until softened some. Add the remaining condiment ingredients and a cornstarch slurry. Return the meatballs to the skillet and navigator until the condiment is thickened.

Easy Sauce

The saccharine and sour condiment is simply a elemental operation of airy brownish sugar, achromatic vinegar, and ketchup, positive the foodstuff from the tin of pineapple. It is thickened with cornstarch truthful that it truly coats the meatballs.

Sweet and Sour Meatballs Recipe Tip

If the condiment is excessively tangy and not saccharine capable for your taste, adhd an other tablespoonful oregon 2 of brownish sugar.

Ground Beef oregon meatloaf premix tin beryllium substituted for the crushed pork.

Make Ahead

The meatballs tin beryllium mixed and shaped up to 24 hours successful advance. Cover with integrative wrapper and refrigerate until acceptable to cook.

Time Saver

For a truly speedy and casual recipe, usage frozen meatballs. Then this repast tin beryllium made successful nether 20 minutes.

Storage

Will support for 3 to 4 days successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator and tin beryllium reheated successful the microwave. Can beryllium frozen for up to 2 months.

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Sweet and Sour Meatballs- tender, juicy pork meatballs are coated successful a tangy condiment with pineapple chunks, onions, and doorbell peppers.

Course Dinner, Main Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword pineapple, pork

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Ingredients

Meatballs

• 1 pound ground pork
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup Panko crumbs
• 1/4 cup finely diced onion
• 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil

Sauce

• 1 red doorbell pepper, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1/2 medium onion, cut into ample dice
• 1 (20-ounce) can pineapple chunks successful juice, undrained
• 1/3 cup firmly packed brownish sugar
• 1/3 cup distilled achromatic vinegar
• 1/4 cup ketchup
• 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes, optional
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 green onions, sliced
• white atom for serving

Instructions

• Gently premix unneurotic archetypal 8 ingredients successful a mean bowl.

  Shape into 1 1/4 inch meatballs (about 12).
• Heat lipid implicit mean vigor successful a ample nonstick skillet.

  Add meatballs and navigator until browned connected each sides and cooked through, astir 10 to 12 minutes.
• Remove meatballs from skillet and acceptable connected a insubstantial towel-lined plate.

  Add peppers and bulb to skillet and navigator for 5 minutes to soften.
• Add the foodstuff from the tin of pineapple, the brownish sugar, vinegar, and ketchup to the skillet. Add reddish capsicum flakes if using.
• In a tiny bowl, whisk unneurotic cornstarch and water. Add to skillet.
• Return meatballs to skillet and adhd pineapple chunks. Bring to a simmer and simmer for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Serve implicit atom and apical with greenish onions.

Notes

If condiment isn’t saccharine enough, adhd different tablespoonful oregon 2 of brownish sugar.

The station Sweet and Sour Meatballs appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.