Sweet and Sour Meatballs

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5.0 (33 reviews)

The perfect combination of sweet and sour, these meatballs are tender yet firm, holding their shape beautifully. Feel free to shape the meatballs as big or small as you like. This recipe will become a staple on your dinner rotation, because they’re that good!

2h 8
Easy Meat

Contains: Gluten, Wheat, Egg

Directions

To Prepare

  1. Mix the bread crumbs, eggs, salt, pepper, and sugar together with the ground meat.

  2. In a six-quart pot, sauté onions for sauce; add the rest of the sauce ingredients. Bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer. In the meantime, form the meatballs.

  3. Form the meat mixture into small balls, add to pot and cook in the sauce for one and a half to two hours.

Tips:

Can be served as a main dish or made into small balls and served as an appetizer. Serve over rice or pasta.

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17 Comments

Shaindy •

This is the best (and currently, the only) meatball recipe I use for my family!
- Recently, some family members went gluten-free. Instead of bread crumbs we use one of the following:

  1. Oatmeal (or oat flour) and omit the sugar
  2. Cornflakes crumbs and omit the sugar
  3. Rice (my kids don't prefer this version)

- Making the sauce is what's the most time-consuming. I make 4-5 times the sauce recipe and freeze it in 1 lb containers. When I'm making meatballs for supper, I simply pop a container into the pot with boiling water.
- We usually use either chopped chicken or 1 lb chicken and 1 lb chopped turkey. (My family didn't go for just turkey.) As the family grew, I've been making 1 1/2 times the recipe (2 lbs. chicken and 1 turkey) but with a single recipe (1 lb container) of sauce.

Leora H •

Such a delicious recipe!! My husband literally hates meatballs and when I made this a few weeks ago he was obsessed and even asked me to make it again for dinner tonight! We love this recipe, Thank you!

Goldy G Kosher.com Team •
Reply to Leora H

Thanks for sharing! You're making me want to try it myself!

Nechama •

This is part of my dinner rotation- we love these meatballs!

Avigael Levi Kosher.com Team •
Reply to Nechama

I'm seriously so happy to hear that!

Liora Sh •

Thank you for recipe! Very tasty. I've been looking for a sauce like this for a long time.

rivki •

We love these meatballs! Can I make them for Pesach? How would you substitute the breadcrumbs!

Avigael Levi Kosher.com Team •
Reply to rivki

We're so happy to hear! I actually just made them this past Shabbat :)
Yes, you can try matzo meal or even ground nuts...