Sweet and Sour Chicken Meatballs {Giveaway Post!!}
Bubbe's Sweet and Sour Meatballs with Chicken instead of Beef- so you can eat twice as many!
Ingredients
- For sauce:
- 2 Tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 small yellow onion minced
- 1 cup canned tomato sauce
- 1 cup dry red wine white works too actually
- 1/4 cup Nektar Naturals or sugar or more 1/2 cup total if you want sweeter meatballs!
- Juice from 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup white wine vinegar
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon allspice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt or more to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- For meatballs:
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 small yellow onion small diced
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup cilantro minced, plus more for garnish
- 1/4 cup breadcrumbs or matzo meal during Passover
- Squirt of Sriracha optional
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- First saute one onion in 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil over medium heat until tender.
- Then add tomato sauce and wine and stir.
- Then add the Nektar Naturals, lemon juice, vinegar, water, allspice and salt and pepper. Lower heat to medium low and let simmer.
- Meanwhile, mix together ground chicken, minced garlic, onion, 1 egg, minced cilantro, breadcrumbs, and I added in a squirt of Sriracha because I put it in everything!! Addicted. Then form into little balls.
- Heat up a large skillet over medium heat and add in 1/4 cup olive oil. Then brown meatballs on either side. This gives them extra flavor and helps them stay in ball form!
- Add them to the sauce and simmer for 20 minutes until the sauce is thick and the meat is cooked through.
- Garnish with extra cilantro and serve hot!
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