Sweet and Sour Meatballs - EDC

[AmandaN]

Made this last night.  Very nice and tasty!

Unfortunately, my husband is traveling for work, so it was just me and the two kids.  I could of fed the whole street with this dish!!!!
With the vegies are recommended in the recipe, the tray of the varoma was jam packed, so I did cook for an extra 5 minutes.  Sauce was really nice, and thickened up to a good consistency after standing. Next time I might put some of the vegies and pineapple on top of the meatballs in the dish, so things have a bit more room.

[judydawn]

There are only 2 of us Amanda  & after I had made this one in my early days I put a note on it to only do half next time.  I mixed only the vegies in with the sauce and poured that over the meatballs. I used a bit more cornflour than the recipe states. It would certainly feed a lot of people.

[Thermomixer]

Great work AmandaN  - good to hear that it is a winner.

[Terri]

Not to sure where the best place was for this but was wondering if anyone has or would swap the pork for chicken as i dont eat much in the way of pork products?? any other suggestions

[judydawn]

Yes Amanda, you could swap the pork for chicken.

[Denzelmum]

I made vegetarian style, using fried tofu instead of pork meat ball.  Have no bamboo shot as well, so just omit.  DH doesn't like sweet sour but everyone else enjoy this.

[becd54]

Sorry I'm a bit new to this  - where is the recipe for this it sounds fantastic!

[Yvette]

Page 103 of the Everyday Cookbook

[ClareN]

For those that have made this, was the mince wet and gluggy?  It doesn't feel like a normal meatball and I am more pinching them into shape than rolling.  Jumped on here as not sure it looks like it's supposed to!

I'll keep going with it and hope for the best I think! 

[Cornish Cream]

I made this for our supper and we all enjoyed it, the sauce very tasty.I made 28 meatballs, using freerange pork mince I didn't use the bamboo shoots as I didn't have any, so just left it out.A super little recipe 5/5

[judydawn]

Didn't take you long to try a recipe from your new EDC CC - this was one of the first recipes I made from that book, makes heaps!

[Cornish Cream]

Didn't take you long to try a recipe from your new EDC CC - this was one of the first recipes I made from that book, makes heaps!

I did read the reviews before I tried this recipe Judy,but I agree it did make heaps

[cecilia]

Absolutely wonderful meal.  Excellent recipe!

[Kazza14]

  sorry I didn't enjoy this one, the pork didn't seem to mince very well to start off with and I felt that the flavour was lacking something...sorry to put a downer on it but just being honest, would probably try Chicken if I did it again.

[Lilli33]

Ok. Tried this in the TC tonight. Sauce was really quite strong I found although tasty. Just seemed a bit concentrated. I only had a 420gm of pineapple but it was mooooore than enough so am wondering how much everyone used? I added an extra cup of water for the pineapple juice I would have been lacking.

I was initially worried about the meatballs piling up, but they seemed to cook fine. My meatball paste was also sludgy but I plopped big teaspoons full in a bowl of breadcrumbs and that seemed to dry the outside and hold them together. They. Certainly couldn't be rolled by hand without something dry added.

Will try again a little more diluted, and perhaps with some spring onion in the meatballs. Maybe even chicken. Loved doing all at once though and I had my rice cooker on at the same time.