Sweet and Sour Meatballs IV

  4.4 – 31 reviews  • Meatball Appetizer Recipes

These tasty meatballs are simple to cook and are sure to please your family. Put them on top of rice.

Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 40 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 6
Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients

  1. 5 teaspoons beef bouillon granules, divided
  2. ¼ cup boiling water
  3. 1 ½ pounds lean ground beef
  4. 1 cup dry bread crumbs
  5. ¾ cup minced onion
  6. 1 egg
  7. 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained with juice reserved
  8. ⅓ cup fresh lemon juice
  9. 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
  10. 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  11. 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger root
  12. 2 tablespoons cornstarch
  13. 1 green bell pepper, chopped

Instructions

  1. In a small saucepan, dissolve 2 teaspoons of the bouillon granules in 1/4 cup boiling water. In a large bowl, combine ground beef, bread crumbs, onion, and egg. Mix in the dissolved bouillon. Shape into meatballs, about 1 to 2 inches in diameter.
  2. In a large saucepan over medium heat, brown the meatballs on all sides. In a small bowl, combine 1/4 cup of the reserved pineapple juice, lemon juice, brown sugar, soy sauce, remaining beef bouillon granules, and ginger. Pour into the pan with meatballs. Cover, and simmer for 25 minutes.
  3. In a small bowl, combine remaining pineapple juice and cornstarch. Stir into meatball mixture, and simmer until thickened. Add green pepper and pineapple chunks; heat thoroughly.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 501 kcal
Carbohydrate 42 g
Cholesterol 116 mg
Dietary Fiber 2 g
Protein 25 g
Saturated Fat 10 g
Sodium 895 mg
Sugars 24 g
Fat 26 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Stacy Franco
I chose this recipe over Lana’s Sweet and Sour Meatballs at the suggestion of one reviewer and I’m glad I did. It was fairly simple and I had the ingredients. I did add a little black pepper & a half teaspoon of red pepper flakes to the ground beef mixture because we like heat. Next time, which will be soon, I’m going to double the sauce. Our guest was impressed.
Heather Robertson
Although I doctored up my meatballs by adding garlic pepper, onion powder, garlic salt, I made the sauce exactly as written, I also threw in maraschino cherries for color. It was delish. Served it over rice & loved it.
Kevin Henry
Very nice meatballs, I only omitted the green peppers since nobody in my family likes them. I was thinking of next time adding a few more veggies, like snow peas and maybe celery what do you think?
Michaela Williams
This was really good! I had to make some changes out of necessity though, and I think they worked in my favor. I used ground ginger, about 2 tsp, apple cider vinegar instead of lemon juice, and then when I read someone say more sauce would’ve been nice, I added an extra 1/4 c of AC vinegar, and 1/4 c water. I chopped 2 stalks of celery and simmered that in with the meatballs and sauce so they’d be soft once everything was cooked. I didn’t add the peppers, and used tidbit pineapple, and I served with egg noodles. Husband gave it a thumbs up, and so do I.
Andrew Finley
I followed the recipe as written, and the such was very good, but I found the meatballs to be rather bland. They need something to kick them up…bread crumbs, onion and beef broth just didn’t do it.
Jamie Clark
Yum! Better than the chinese restaurant. The only changes I made were: had no fresh ginger so added a few dashes of ground, and had no green bell pepper so used a yellow one instead. Adding beef bouillon to the meatballs was tasty; I had never tried that before, and they were awesome. The sauce was great too; thanks for a great recipe! UPDATE: Made this again using fresh ginger…much tastier! Although this time I was short on time and used Simek’s mini beef meatballs, not as good. I prefer using pineapple tidbits, other than that this recipe needs no tweaks!
Elizabeth Owens
I love this recipe. I made this a while ago and am just getting around to reviewing it. I crave this one. I don’t think I changed a thing about it. As is was great.
Mrs. Lisa Perez
I was looking forward to this but it just didn’t hit my family’s taste buds. Not sure why, followed the recipe, just doubled the sauce as there was not enough in this recipe.
Joshua Powell
Everyone I made this for has loved it and I was even asked for the recipe.
Perry Torres
Hmm these dont taste like sweet and sour meatballs at all! But theyre still dellicious 🙂 Made it with rice and brocoli ! Good recipe.
Julie Rivas
This meal was pleasant in many ways, although there was not enough juice to our liking. The flavor was splendid! I made this with my grandson, Noah. It was our first endeavor cooking together. We will do more cooking!!! We would recommend this to everyone! We did replace the brown sugar with Splenda brown sugar and no one could tell. It is our secret!!!
Regina Bender DDS
I really wanted to like this recipe… it smelled good while cooking, but we just didnt like it. It was WAY too tart for us. We dont like overly sweet dishes, but this was much too tangy for our tastes. With that said, I did really enjoy the texture of the meatballs, so I think I’ll use the meatball recipe with a different sauce.
Mark Kelly
I used ground turkey instead, came out fine. Served over egg noodles. Next time I will figure out a way to make extra “sauce” from the pineapple juice, because more would have made it more ‘stroganoff-y” which we would have preferred.Overall, we liked it and will probably make it again.
Emily Shaw
Very good. Wasn’t exactly what my hubby had in mind when I said I was making Sweet and Sour Meatballs (only because it doesn’t taste like his mother’s 🙂
Jermaine Jenkins
This was tasty but I did change it a bit. I didn’t have pineapple on hand so I used cranberry sauce instead. I also used onion powder instead of onions in the meatballs. It thickened nicely with the cornstarch mixed with 1/4 cup cold water. I recommend that you don’t use whole cranberry sauce but the jellied type. I enjoyed it and will do it again but probably with the pineapple!
Sabrina Christensen
Not bad, made on P2.
Courtney Carter
This was fantastic! I rated it a 4 instead of a 5 just because I personally like more sauce and had to add more pineapple juice and brown sugar.
Jason Brewer
Very easy, forgiving and delicious recipe. My small children enjoyed, and they are quite picky. I used ground turkey instead of ground beef, but otherwise followed pretty closely. I was in a hurry and just eye-balled the measurements and it turned out great. This will be a regular! Thanks for the recipe.
Jessica Gonzalez
I doubled this recipe and used ground pork instead of beef I partialy cooked the meatballs then threw them into the slow cooker with the sauce on low for about 4-5 hours and it came out great! My whole family loved it.
Shirley Johnston
I made this for a luau last week and everyone raved about it. It competed with a variety of other foods, but these meatballs were the hit! We put everything (but the peppers and pineapple chunks) into a crock pot and left it on high for maybe an hour (until it hit a boil) then switched it to low, added the peppers and pineapple, and kept it there for several hours during the party. I altered the amount to serve 20, so, if putting this in a crock pot, keep an eye on it!
Mr. Billy Benton
I made these meatballs for Thanksgiving. We have some in the family who aren’t crazy about turkey. I made a double batch and followed the recipe as is , except that after the meatballs were cooked I dumped everything in a crockpot to cook. These turned out great and my husband has already requested them for our family Christmas party.

 

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