We love meatballs around here. We're rather fond of Asian flavors as well and pork is on our favorites list too so last night we put 'em all together and came up with a real winner.
Big Guy whipped up the pork meatballs using a recipe adapted from Cooking Light although maybe I should say inspired by because he juiced up the spices by adding more ginger and garlic along with red pepper flakes for a little added bite.
While he was in charge of the meatballs, I made a simple peanut dressing and opened up a bag of Dole's Asian Blend Chopped Salad ...hey we saw it in the grocery store and absolutely HAD to try it. I gave the greens a little extra somethin' somethin' by adding slivers of sweet onion, drained canned water chestnuts and another handful of snap peas to a salad already loaded with some of those sweet crunchy beauties along with red and green cabbage, broccoli slaw, kale and carrots.
It was amazing! Moist tender gingery meatballs garnished with a little sweet chile sauce on top of a crisp bed of good for you green stuff dressed with peanutty sauce...well, talk about a perfect no fuss Sunday night dinner! Darned fine teamwork too, huh!
Gingery Pork Meatballs from JBug’s Kitchen Antics inspired by and adapted from Cooking Light via myrecipes.com
1 pound lean ground pork
2 tablespoons dry breadcrumbs
1/4 cup finely chopped sweet onion
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
4 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried red pepper flakes
1 large egg, beaten
Combine all ingredients together. Form into 1-1/2 inch balls. Preheat oven to 400. Spray a sauté pan with cooking spray and heat over medium high. When hot, add meatballs and brown on all sides. When browned, place in oven and bake for 5 to 7 minutes or until cooked through. Serve on salad or with peanut dressing on the side for dipping.
Peanut Dressing:
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup hot water
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon honey
1 teaspoon sriraccha (or to taste)
Combine ingredients together in a jar with a tight fitting lid and shake well.
Other pork meatball recipes you might like to try ...
Vietnamese Pork & Shrimp Meatballs Asian Flavored Pork Meatballs
Those meatballs sound like something you could also serve on their own as an app.
Posted by: Lorraine | 03/23/2014 at 07:39 AM
Lorraine - you got that right and they'd be awesome!
Posted by: June | 03/23/2014 at 12:15 PM