Sweet and Sour Meatballs
Easy recipe for Sweet and Sour Meatballs that are perfect for taking to pot luck parties or sharing with your family at home. Serve with fried rice or potato salad.
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 1 lb extra lean ground beef
- ½ sm onion, finely chopped
- ¼ cup uncooked minute rice
- 1 lg egg, well beaten
- 1 tsp garlic powder
Sauce
- 1 cup ketchup
- 3 tbsp white vinegar
- 4 tbsp brown sugar
- ½ to 1 cup water
Instructions
Meatballs
- Add all ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix together thoroughly with your hands.
- Form into small balls and put aside.
- Start the sauce.
Sauce
- Add ketchup to a heavy bottom pot, deep enough to hold the sauce and meatballs.
- Turn the burner on to medium heat. Add the vinegar and stir. Add the brown sugar and stir. As sauce is heating, add the water small bits at a time, to thin (half a cup for thicker sauce, full cup for thinner sauce).
- Once the sauce starts to bubble, start adding the raw meatballs. (To speed up the cooking time, you can brown the meatballs in the oven in a shallow pan. This will also reduce the amount of grease.)
- Simmer the meatballs in the sauce until they are cooked thoroughly and the sauce coats them.
- This can be served with rice or potato salad.
Notes
If I am making this to take to party or function, I triple the recipe for everything.
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