As much as we love to invent and have new ideas and exciting choices of food for our family to enjoy everyday, we sometimes ran out of 1, 2, or 3 missing recipes that's needed. In a kind of lifestyle that I have, (and I'm speaking for myself=) we try to buy recipes that we need but I usually missed an ingredient or if not, I changed my mind so quickly what to cook to surprise my family. A food that they will enjoy. I hope you know what I mean, not the usual. Actually, in this recipe, I was planning to make a burger steak with mashed potato and corn and carrots on the side. I already made the mashed potato earlier and thinking that I would be doing burger steak again inspite of having burger steak a week ago and wanted to surprise my family with a different and delicious meal. hehe.. At first, I baffled but i decided to cook Sweet and Sour Beef Meatball Recipe at that minute and glad I did it.
Since kids love meatballs, my daughter loved this meal. It will surely build your kid’s appetite.
If you want to take the meatballs to the next level, you can always use the meatball recipe in your Spaghetti. As for the meatballs, the recipe asks for ground pork but it's alright to use ground turkey, ground chicken, ground pork, or ground beef. In my case, ground beef is available and it's actually a ground beef with no antibiotic or hormones added. Atleast that's what it says on the label and i bought it from Trader Joes. In all the recipes in my blog, You may always use a regular meat of course, it's just me =). I used organic onion, organic egg and organic carrots in this recipe. I don't normally use oil but if I do, I try to use extra virgin olive oil cold pressed and if I get lucky, an organic olive oil which I buy at a discounted price most often in Grocery Outlet. I literally love that store because we are always in a budget and their products are great and they usually have organic and natural stuff as well. Please always check the ingredient of everything that you purchased from food to personal hygiene and cosmetics. Later I will discuss about that. You may read information if you are a healthy organic freakkyyy princess like me.. lol.
Ohh this is getting long, ok let's go back to our recipe.
Try this Healthiest Sweet and Sour Meatballs recipe and let us know what you think.
Sweet and Sour Meatballs Recipe
Ingredients
Meatballs:
1 lb ground beef, I used 95% lean 15% fat
1/2 cup wheat flour, bread crumbs are better but not available at our house at the time =(
2 teaspoons sea salt, crushed
2 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 piece raw egg
1 whole onion, minced
Sauce:
1 tablespoon garlic, minced
5 pieces atleast pineapple chunks, I got that from a canned fruit cocktail, be resourceful! =)
4 tsp apple cider vinegar, or regular vinegar
1 medium sized onion, quartered
6 garlic cloves
1/2 cup water
4 tablespoons tomato ketchup
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup carrot, sliced
1 tsp olive oil, or regular oil
Sea salt and pepper to taste
very important ingredient but not available in our home, now it's optional:
1 cup bell pepper (red and green combined)
But it turned out it tasted so good
Cooking Procedure
-In a large mixing bowl, combine ground beef, minced onion, salt, ground black pepper, and egg. Mix thoroughly.
-Scoop about 1 to 2 tablespoons of mixture and form into a ball shaped figure. Roll the scooped meatball to your flour. Set aside.
-Heat a frying pan then pour-in meatball and cover it with low fire.
-On the same cooking pot then pour-in remaining 1 tsp of oil.- put the garlic. Add the quartered onion, sliced carrot, and bell peppers (optional) then cook for -5 minutes.
-Add pineapple chunks and cook for 1 minute.
-Put-in the tomato ketchup, brown sugar, and vinegar then stir.
-Pour-in water and let boil.
-Add sea salt and ground pepper to taste
-When reached desired taste, please turn off stove
Serve hot with rice. I served it with my mashed potato as well.
Share and enjoy! =)
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