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Sweet & Sour Pork Meatballs

Here's how you make Sweet & Sour Pork Meatballs
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  • Servings: 4
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 25m
  • The following recipe serves 4 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 2 slices (60 grams) bread (crusts removed)
  • 60 ml milk (1/4 cup)
  • 500 grams ground pork (pork mince)
  • 3 green shallots, finely chopped
  • Ginger root (2cm piece ginger, peeled and finely grated)
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • 2 teaspoons cornflour
  • 1 egg
  • 3 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons oil (peanut oil)
  • 1 brown onion, coarsely chopped
  • 1 red capsicum, deseeded and coarsely chopped
  • 1 green capsicum, deseeded and coarsely chopped
  • 227 grams pineapple chunks (in juice, canned)
  • 125 ml tomato sauce (1/2 cup)
  • 60 ml rice wine vinegar (1/4 cup)
  • 1 tablespoon caster sugar
  • Steamed brown rice, to serve
  • Fresh coriander leaves, to serve (optional)
  • Bean sprouts, to serve (optional)
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Place the bread in a bowl and cover with the milk and set aside for 2 minutes to soak and then squeeze out the milk and place the bread in a large bowl.

  • Step 2: Add the pork mince, shallot, ginger, garlic, cornflour, egg and 1 tablespoon soy sauce to the bread mixture and using your hands to mix gently to combine and then season.

  • Step 3: Roll tablespoonfuls of the mixture into balls and transfer to a plate.

  • Step 4: Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large frying pan over medium heat and add the meatballs, in batches, and cook, tossing, for 8 minutes or until golden and then transfer to a separate plate.

  • Step 5: Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon oil in the pan over medium-high heat and add the onion and capsicum and cook, stirring, for 3-4 minutes or until slightly softened and then reduce heat to low and add the pineapple and juice from the can, tomato sauce, vinegar, sugar and remaining 2 tablespoons soy sauce and bring to the boil and then reduce the heat to medium and add the meatballs and cook, stirring, for 4-5 minutes or until the meatballs are cooked through and the sauce thickens.

  • Step 6: Divide rice among serving bowls and top with meatballs and sauce and scatter over coriander and bean sprouts, if you like.


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