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Sweet and Sour Meatball Recipe

One quick and easy dinner that you can make for your family is Sweet and Sour Meatballs. As the name suggests, this is a meatball dish with sweet and sour sauce.

Difficulty Expert
Time 40 min
Servings 4
Ingredients 17
Steps 14
Sweet and Sour Meatball Recipe
Cuisine not specified Updated 7/9/2010

Ingredients

Measured from the catalog payload.

  • 1 lb ground pork
  • 1/2 cup bread crumb
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
  • 1 piece egg
  • 1/2 cup onion minced
  • 1 tablespoon garlic minced
  • 1 cup pineapple chunk
  • 1/3 cup vinegar
  • 1 cup bell pepper
  • 1 sized onion quartered
  • 1 cup water
  • 3 tablespoons tomato ketchup
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup carrot sliced
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch diluted in 3 tablespoons of water
  • 8 tablespoons cooking oil

Instructions

14 cooking steps

  1. In a large mixing bowl, combine ground pork, minced onion, salt, ground black pepper, egg, and bread crumbs. Mix thoroughly.
  2. Scoop about 1 to 2 tablespoons of mixture and form into a ball shaped figure. Set aside.
  3. Heat a frying pan then pour-in 6 tablespoons of cooking oil.
  4. When the oil is hot enough, pan-fry the ball-shaped mixture until the outer side turns brown.
  5. Once done, turn off the heat and transfer the fried meatballs on a serving plate or bowl. Set aside.
  6. Heat a separate cooking pot then pour-in remaining 2 tablespoons of oil.
  7. When the oil is hot enough, sauté the garlic.
  8. Add the quartered onion, sliced carrot, and bell peppers then cook for 2 minutes.
  9. Add pineapple chunks and cook for 1 minute.
  10. Put-in the tomato ketchup, brown sugar, and vinegar then stir.
  11. Pour-in water and let boil.
  12. Add the cornstarch diluted in water and cook until desired thickness is reached.
  13. Turn off heat then ladle the sauce over the pan-fried meatballs.
  14. Serve hot. Share and enjoy!

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