I got this recipe from my mother-in-law shortly after I was married. Now it is a favorite of our kids. I like to serve it over rice.

Sweet and Sour Meatballs II

beef

onion, chopped

dry bread crumbs

salt and pepper

water

cider vinegar

ketchup

cornstarch

brown sugar

soy sauce

In a large bowl, combine beef, egg, onion, bread crumbs, salt and pepper. Roll into meatballs about 1 to 1 1/2 inches in size.


In a large skillet over medium heat, saute the meatballs until browned on all sides.


In a separate medium bowl, mix together the water, vinegar, ketchup, cornstarch, sugar and soy sauce. Pour over the meatballs, and allow sauce to thicken. Continue to heat until the sauce just starts to bubble.


If you are making these, here's a tip. Do not use apple cider vinegar - it's not the same thing as cider vinegar! It'll completely ruin your sauce. I found that out the hard way, had to throw out the sauce plus my house stunk for days. I tried it again with regular vinegar and it was great - I'm sure cider vinegar would be even better.

Good recipe. The meatballs are too plain though with only salt and pepper. One should either use seasoned bread crumbs or add some seasoning spices (dried parsley sage etc.). I added three more dashes of soy sauce to mellow the sweetness of the sauce.

These sweet and sour meatballs are absolutley great.  The sweet and sour sauce is great on chicken wings also.  I have made this recipe at least a billion times now and it's a hit with everyone.  Absolutley great!!!!!!  Believe me you will love this recipe and it's simple.  

Sometimes instead of making my own meatballs.  I just buy the already made meatballs (like Armour meatballs).  You just have to put the meatballs in the oven for 30-40 minutes (frozen).  Make the sauce while you wait for the meatballs.  Then just put the meatballs in the sauce.  

This is also great with mashed potates.  Just sit the meatballs right on top of the mashed potatoes and it'll give your mashed potatoes a great taste.

Yummmmmmmm!!!  These were sooooooooo good!!!  The only kind of vinegar I had on hand was white wine and I only used about 1/4 cup instead of 1/2 cup and the sauce turned out perfect!  I think I'll even be making the sauce alone to pour on chicken.  Thanks for a great recipe!

It is impossible for an average cook like myself to look at this simple ingredients list and determine that it could be converted into the wild delicious taste extravaganza that resulted! I have 4 children from 10-17 with a wide array of likes and dislikes. This one was a unanimous 5-star Eat Like A Viking contest. I knew I would have to double the batch but it still disappeared. Great recipe and so easy no fuss.

I-LOVED-THIS! We had this recipe yesterday for dinner and I feel like having it today too. I did everything as written EXCEPT for the cider vinegar. I did not have any so I used white vinegar instead ONLY 1 TBS. That's all you need trust me if you put more ur recipe will be ruined just like other reviewers have said.

FANTASTIC recipe! I took advice of other reviewers and halved the vinegar-I also only had white vinegar so I used that. The only other change I made was add a small can of pineapple tidbits w/the juice. This was fast easy and so delicious!

I found the sauce to bit over-sweet but my husband requested that I make them again!

I made this and my family loved it! A welcome new addition to my menu planning. I did have make a few alterations due to ingredients on hand and it still turned out delicious. I used Balsamic vinager (3 TBLSP) in place of cider vinager teriyaki sauce in place of soy sauce and added some Worcestershire sauce (3 TBLSP) to the meat mixture. Yummy!

sweet and sour meatballs ii

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total: 20 minutes

Servings: 5

Cost: $5.91 /serving

Author : Cathy

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