Hey guys! You know how, as a child, you’re super picky and wont eat anything that’s not “normal,”but as you grow up, your taste buds change and you start liking new things? Well, mine pulled a Peter Pan and decided they never wanted to grow up… except for a FEW things – like meatballs! Did you guys grow up going to wedding receptions and wondering why they always had big, nasty, sauced-up chunks of meat? I did! The idea of meatballs, just wasn’t my thing. But as a grown up (riiiiight!), I LOVE them. There are so many different varieties, it’s super exciting and tasty!
When I saw these Sweet and Sour Meatballs on the menu for one our Lil Luna recipe days, I may or may not have skipped breakfast, knowing I would devour them up. 🙂 Sure enough, I did! They were so delicious and very simple to put together. We decided to leave out the sriracha sauce, but I’m all for adding it back in next time (because there WILL be a next time!) Since Chinese New Year is coming up next month, we wanted to make sure you had lots of Asian recipes to choose from here on the site. And who am I kidding? We love eating Asian food all year long, so hopefully you can give these beauties a try because we’ve added them to our monthly meal rotation.
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How to make Sweet and Sour Meatballs:
Sweet and Sour Meatballs
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Brown Sugar loosely packed
- 1/2 cup Rice Wine Vinegar
- 1 tbsp Soy Sauce
- 2 1/4 cups Pineapple Juice
- 1 tbsp Cornstarch
- 25 All-Purpose Meatballs (frozen if fine)
- 1 cup Drained Small Pineapple Chunks
- 2 tbsp Sliced Green Onions for garnish
- Rice for serving
Instructions
Add brown sugar, vinegar, ketchup, soy sauce and 2 cups of pineapple juice to a large skillet over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil.
- In a small bowl, mix cornstarch and remaining ¼ cup pineapple juice together, whisking to get out all the lumps. Whisk into your skillet and add Meatballs. Bring to a simmer. Cover and cook 8-10 minutes, until sauce has thickened and the meatballs are heated through. Stir in pineapple chunks. Serve warm over rice.
Adapted from foodnetwork.com
Baker
Added half a can of crushed pineapple to sauce, 1/4 cup ketchup,and all the juice from the canned pineapple(1/2 cup) with 1 cup water. Excellent and will make again! – Zomick’s
Lil' Luna
Sounds yum! Thanks so much for trying it! Glad you liked it 🙂
Net worthier
These meatballs look really good.
Lil' Luna
They are!!! Hope you’ll give them a try! I’d love to know what you think 🙂
Samilla Laws
This will be dinner tonight for my family of 6!! I may double the recipe so the kids can take some for lunch.
Lil' Luna
Hope you all enjoy them!!! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Mary
The display is so pretty. Why did you omit putting in the peppers in your recipe
Lil' Luna
I did add peppers, but they are the red and yellow ones 🙂
Cindi
At what point did you add the peppers? Making this tonight. Looks yummy!
Lil' Luna
Oh, sorry. When I add the meatballs 🙂 Hope that helps!
Shalamova
Sooo Yummy In Eating As Like As In Looking
Thanks @lilluna
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Lil' Luna
You’re welcome! I hope you’ll give it a try! Thank you!
Skipper
Thankyou. No seriously. THANK YOU!!! I made this up and added a few more veggies for my veggie loving kids – and kept the meatballs for my carnivore hubby and brother. The sauce is A-MAZE-ING! So so so yummy! It has to be said – it tastes better than my local Chinese Restaurant. This is going on the “must make again and again” list because it’s heavenly.
Tonight I am so thankful for you!
Lil' Luna
Wow..thank you so much!! I’m so happy to hear everyone loved it! Thank you 🙂
Vicki Pleasant
How is this in crockpot with just meatballs and sauce? No pineapple or peppers. How long in crockpot if so? Thanks much!
Kristyn Merkley
I haven’t done them in the crock pot. It’s done over the skillet, but you could probably transfer it to a crock pot, if you need to. You stir in pineapple chunks & you could add the peppers, until they are heated through. Hope that helps!
Joy
Looks so good! I’m cooking this tonight for Sunday fam dinner..😊 got 3 ‘lil kids to feed.
Kristyn Merkley
Yay! Let me know what they all think! Hope everyone loves it!
Joy
Forgot to update! 🙂 but it was a hit! I add shredded carrots to my meatballs. Brought the leftover in my workplace the following day and share it with my colleagues. They also love it! Thank you.
Erin
The original recipe doesn’t list ketchup in the ingredients but it’s referenced in the instructions. How much do you use? Thanks!
Kelly
In the comments someone says 1/4 cup ketchup but you’re right, it’s not listed as an ingredient in the recipe until it says to add it but then you don’t know how much.
Brittany Carter
Hello.im reading the instructions it says to add ketchup, but doesnt so how much in the recipe?