Sweet Chilli Meatballs
Delicious pork meatballs in an easy sweet chilli sauce. You’ll be making this midweek meal time and time again.
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Ingredients
For the meatballs:
- 500 g Minced pork
- 1 Egg
- 50 g Breadcrumbs
- 50 g Spring onions sliced
- 2 Limes
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Black pepper
For the sauce:
- 4 Cloves of garlic chopped
- 5 g Ginger chopped
- 3 tbsp Soy sauce
- 6 tbsp Sweet chilli sauce
- 3 tbsp Tomato ketchup
For garnish:
- Spring onions
- Sesame seeds
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl add the minced pork, egg, breadcrumbs, spring onion, the zest of the limes, salt, and pepper. Get stuck in and mix it until it’s well combined.
- Roll it out into about 16 equal sized meatballs.
- Pan fry them over a medium to high heat until they are golden brown all over. Remove them from the pan and set aside.
- Chuck in the garlic and ginger and cook for 30 seconds, then pour in 50ml of water. Now add in the soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce and tomato ketchup, stir well.
- Get the meatballs back in the pan and bring it to a simmer. Cook until the sauce becomes nice and sticky, and the meatballs are cooked through.
- Dish them up with rice, then garnish with spring onion and sesame seeds.
6 comments on “Sweet Chilli Meatballs”
Loved this recipe. Enough for 6 people. Added peas and more water.
My family loved this dish! As with all your recipes, so tasty and not too many ingredients. Thanks so much..
Made these yesterday, very easy to follow recipe and went down an absolute treat. Thank you, will definitely be making again
Very easy recipe, the dish tasted great – I doubled up on the sauce
Very, very tasty! Will definitely be doing this again! Thank you for giving me different recipes to try each week, they’re always good!
Hi Jon, I made this and used Sriracha instead of Tomato Sauce. It had a nice heat not overly strong but very tasty, once again, thank you for your recipes.