Beef Meatballs with Pineapple Soy Glaze
Beef meatballs are made with ground beef, mushrooms, bell pepper, green onion. They are baked in oven and coated with pineapple soy glaze.
Ingredients
For meatballs
- 1 lb ground sirloin
- 2 oz button mushrooms minced
- 1/4 red bell pepper minced
- 2 green onion finely chopped
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp rice flour or 2 tablespoon plain bread crumbs
- 1/2 tsp kosher salt
- dashes pepper
For pineapple soy glaze
- 6 tbsp pineapple juice
- 5 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 garlic clove minced
- 1/4 tsp ginger paste
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- 1 tbsp sweet rice wine (mirim) optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375ºF.
- For the meatballs, combine all the ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix well with a folk. Roll into the desired size of meatballs, or about 1-1/2" in diameter. Bake the meatballs in the preheated oven for 18-20 minutes until done. Turn the meatballs to the other side during the half way of cooking.
- For the pineapple soy glaze, combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir very well to dissolve the sugar.
- Heat a skillet over med-high heat, add the glaze mixture and boil until it becomes a thick glaze, stirring constantly. Add the meatballs and coat with the glaze. Serve these meatballs over steamed rice.