Meatballs - no eggs
How to make meatballs from scratch at home.
Ingredients
Meatballs
- 500 g Lean Minced Beef
- 1 Small Red onion finely chopped
- 4 Salad Spring Onions finely chopped
- 2 Cloves Garlic, finely chopped finely chopped
- 2 Tablespoons Carrot finely chopped
- Salt and Pepper
- Olive Oil see video
- 3 Tablespoons Panko Breadcrumbs
- Fresh Coriander finely chopped - see video
For Cooking
- 1/2 Medium Brown Onion
- 2 - 3 Cloves Garlic thinly sliced
- Ginger finely chopped - see video
- Olive Oil
- Salt and Pepper
- Butter
The Sauce
- 270 ml Water
- 45 g Tomato sauce
- 65 g BBQ Sauce
- 30 ml Soy sauce
- 45 g Hoisin Sauce
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, add the minced beef, salt, pepper, garlic, red and spring onions, coriander, carrot and panko breadcrumbs, drizzle with olive oil.
- Use your hands to mix all the ingredients together until evenly combined.
- Using a small ice cream scoop. scoop and shape the meatballs into about 22 meatballs.
- Preheat a large frying pan over medium-high heat.
- Add olive oil, swirl the oil to coat the surface of the pan. Add 6 to 8 of the meatballs into the pan.
- Sauté (to brown) the meatballs, turning every couple of minutes, until browned on all sides. Repeat the process with the remaining batches of meatballs.
- Transfer the browned meatballs onto a baking tray.
- In the same pan add olive oil and butter.
- Sauté chopped brown onion, sliced garlic and minced ginger.
- Cook for about 5 minutes, season with salt and pepper.
- Add sauce (water, tomato sauce, hoisin sauce and soy sauce). Stir and let it simmer for 5 minutes.
- Add browned meatballs, and cook for 10 minutes on medium-high heat and cook for another 10 minutes on low-medium heat or until they cooked through.
- Serve with rice.