Chinese Sweet And Sour Meatballs With Turkey Mince
Why You’ll Like It
So scrumptious – The main secret lies in doing meatballs in doing the meatballs from scratch always going for organic fine quality products. They can be done a few days ahead in the refrigerator and even frozen. Surprisingly, you reheat these babies and you’ll still get the most awesome dish rave comments about it.
Diet-friendly – Perfect for a low-fat, lower-calorie, high protein, gluten-free, dairy-free, and nut-free diet.
Healthy – The recipe have a good balance of protein, carbohydrates and fats. In addition, it doesn’t have any added sugar or salt. This is a meatball recipe I have adapted myself in order to turn it into a macronutrient friendly used when I was trying to lose my pregnancy weight.
Tips
- Feel free to swap the ground pork with ground chicken, turkey, or a plant-based alternative.
Serving the Sweet and sour Meatballs with Turkey Mince
Buffet Style: Arrange the meatballs in a large serving dish, and pour the sweet and sour sauce over them. Place small serving forks or toothpicks nearby for easy grabbing.
Over Rice: Serve the meatballs and sauce over cooked rice.
Skewers: Thread the meatballs and pineapple alternately onto skewers and drizzle extra sweet and sour sauce over the skewers for dipping.
Wraps: Place the meatballs and pineapple in wraps, drizzle with a little sweet and sour sauce, and serve with additional sauce on the side for dipping.
Health Info
| Calories: | 424.5kcal |
| Sugar: | 19.11g |
| Sodium: | 748.5mg |
| Fat: | 21.5g |
| Carbohydrates: | 26.2g |
| Fiber: | 3.4g |
| Protein: | 34.1g |
Description
Ingredients
- 450 g turkey mince (or ground pork)
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp ginger root grated
- ½ tsp white pepper
- 1 tbsp tamari sauce
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Sauce:
- 1 carrot
- 1 green pepper
- 1 pineapple can 400ml or ½ fresh pineapple
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 4 tomatoes medium, quartered
Instructions
- Finely chop the onions, and grate the ginger root.
- In a large bowl, mix the ground pork, egg, bread crumbs, onion.
- Subsequently, add the Tamari sauce, white pepper and ginger root and mix well.
- Shape the mixture into one inch balls.
- Either place the meatballs in a preheated oven to 200 degrees or otherwise use a big pan and fry them in two batches using the olive oil for frying.
- For the sauce, finely chop the carrot and the green pepper.
- In a large pan over medium heat, pour a cup of pineapple juice, soy sauce and vinegar until smooth.
- Add the pineapple chunks, carrot and green pepper into the sauce and leave to simmer. Occasionally stir, and add water if necessary cause the mixture might dry quickly..
- Leave to cook for 15 minutes uncovered. Then add the meatballs and quartered tomatoes for 5 minutes on low heat.
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