My kids love meatballs (like mini rissoles) this sweet and sour meatball recipe was enough to feed our family of 5Â for 2 nights, serve with mashed potato and steamed vegetables first night, then in bread rolls as an easy dinner the following night.
Roll the mince mixture into balls – to make… meatballs!
Add sliced vegetables on top of the meatballs, then pour over sauce.
Bake in oven then serve. Â Not the best photo below, but it tasted delicious!
Sweet and Sour Meatballs
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Prep Time |
Cook Time |
Total Time |
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10 mins |
45 mins |
55 mins |
- Meatballs
- 2kg mince
- 2 cups plain bread crumbs
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 egg
- salt and pepper to taste
- Sauce
- 1 Green capsicum
- 1 x425g can pineapple and juice
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup tomato sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1/3 cup vinegar
- 1/3 cup worchestire sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornflour to the sauce mixture
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Meatballs
- Mix ingredients together and form into balls.
- Arrange in a single layer in a lightly greased baking dish.
- Sauce
- Combine all ingredients and pour over meatballs.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through.
- Serve with vegetables.
By Kat – The Organised Housewife
Grab some fresh breadrolls on the way home from school pick up or work, heat up the meatballs and have a delicious meatball sub. Â We had our with just the meatballs, but you could add some lettuce, cheese etc to fill it up more. There was ample left overs to feed our family of 5 again.
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22 comments
These look so delicious Kat! I love the idea of adding the vegetables on top too 😀
It works perfectly, Lorraine and so super easy to make.:)
Hi! I make this recipe for dinner today! It’s very simple, perfect! Greetings from Spain!
Hw wonderful Fran.:) So glad you enjoyed it x
Meatballs are a big favourite in our house too Kat! I have never made a sweet and sour version though – what a fab idea! I’m going to have to make this recipe next time!
There are delicious,Lucy.:) And so easy to make, just a nice variation.:)
Thank you Kat. This is going in my meal planner!! Yum!
I also love the idea of the vegetables over the meatballs, so simple and trying this for the first time as meatballs are a quick and easy meal for my 3 kids (11, 8 and 4)… I have been going through your meal planning/recipes and I can proudly say I have 2 weeks orgainsed as I wrote down all the meat I have in my freezer and just worked around what my kids likes 🙂
Just letting you know Katrina, my Kids loved it and so did my partner! A winner in this house and looks like it will be a favourite too. I also added both red and green capsicum for colour 🙂
Fantastic! It is such a easy and delicious meal, perfect mid week dinner.:)
That is wonderful, Tracey! I am so happy to har you have meal planned for the next two weeks! YAY i’m excited to hear that!.:) x
Lovely recipe Katrina ! I made these tonight and just added some red capsicum for colour. I used a mixture of Pork and Veal Mince to carry on the Asian theme of the recipe. As DH is working away from home – I used 1kg of mince and made two batches – we had one tonight and the other is in the freezer.
I particularly loved this recipe because I could assemble it earlier in the day. When I got home from soccer training with my two youngest kiddos – I cooked up some rice and pre-heated the oven. Then I popped the meatball dish in the oven as I left to collect my eldest DD from dance practice. When we arrived home – dinner was practically on the table !
Did you make this recipe up ? It’s a winner in my book – well done !!!
That is wonderful, Julia! It is a real winner in my house too.:) I love the idea of adding red capsicum, i too love to have a bit of colour in my meals, i think it looks nice on the plate.:)
Can this be frozen?
Absolutely, Sherelle.:)
Great idea! I do something similar but put it in the slow cooker instead. YUM! We get 2 meals out of it too.
Great idea in making them in the slow cooker! I love how it makes a lot, perfect for leftovers or to freeze and have another night!
I love all of your easy recipes. Could I add a suggestion? I see you have a print button to print the recipe but what if you want to save the recipe in a folder for later? Could you possibly add a button to make it easier to save the recipe for later use.
Hi Jenny, That is a fantastic idea! I don’t have a save button but it is something i could look into. The other alternative is you can save recipes in Evernotes.
I love this recipe, I have looked it up so many times I really should print it out and put it in our favourites folder!
LOL, yes print it, I have that option on all my recipes, so pleased it’s one of your family favourites, music to my ears 🙂
I love this recipe, I have looked it up so many times I really should print it out and put it in our favourites folder!