Asian Pork Meatballs
Made with aromatic spices and ground pork, these Asian Pork Meatballs combine ground pork with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, and sesame oil, perfectly complemented by hints of green onion.
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 1½ lbs ground pork
- 2 tbsp sweet or red onion minced
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 bunch green onions diced
- 1 tsp ginger minced
- ½ tbsp sesame oil
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- ¼ cup breadcrumbs
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Sauce
- 1/3 cup sesame oil
- 2 tsp garlic minced
- 2 tbsp ginger minced
- 3 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 5 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 3 tsp Chinese 5 Spice Powder
- 1 tsp cornstarch
- sesame seeds for garnish
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Combine all ingredients listed for the meatball portion of the recipe together in a bowl.
- Make sure ingredients are mixed, using clean hands form ground pork mixture into balls approximately 1 to 2 inches in size.
- Pour 2 to 3 tablespoons of olive oil into a medium sized frying pan. As the oil warms brown the meatballs, turning them to ensure they cook but don't burn.
- Place browned meatballs into a glass baking dish and put in preheated oven for 10 minutes of additional cooking.
- As the meatballs finish cooking in the oven, use frying pan to create sauce. Combine sesame oil, garlic, ginger and saute 1 to 2 minutes.
- Add in red wine vinegar, honey, soy sauce, Chinese 5 spice powder and bring to a boil.
- Once a sauce is to a full boil, gently incorporate cornstarch using a whisk.
- Reduce heat and continue to stir as the sauce thickens.
- Remove cooked meatballs from oven and place into frying pan of sauce, gently stir until covered.
- Serve warm, sprinkle with additional garnish of sesame seeds if desired.