Super Saucy, Sweet & Spicy Hoisin Meatballs

🧂 Ingredients

• 650 grams ground beef*
• 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs
• ⅓ cup soy sauce
• ⅓ cup water
• 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
• 3 tablespoons sriracha
• 4 cloves garlic

  minced, pressed or mashed
• 1 tablespoon fresh ginger

  grated
• 1 red chili

  thinly sliced
• 2 stalks green onion

  thinly sliced
• 1 carrot

  small, grated
• 1 egg
• 2 teaspoons vegetable oil
• 3 cloves garlic

  minced, pressed or mashed
• 0.5 tablespoons fresh ginger

  grated
• 1 red chili

  finely minced
• 1 red pepper

  cored and sliced thinly
• 2 teaspoons cornstarch

  or substitute plain flour
• ¾ cup hoisin sauce
• ⅔ cup water
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce

  or more to taste
• 2 tablespoons sriracha

  or more to taste
• 2 stalks green onion

  thinly sliced
• 2 teaspoons black and white sesame seeds

Instructions

• 1 Combine all the ingredients together in a large bowl and mix with your hands
  until incorporated.
• 2 Use your hands or a scoop to shape them into roughly 25-30 golf ball sized
  balls.
• 3 Heat the vegetable oil on medium-high heat in a large skillet.
• 4 Add the garlic, ginger and red chili. Sauté a minute or so until aromatic.
• 5 Sprinkle in the cornstarch and mix until it's absorbed and there are no more dry
  white spots.
• 6 Pour in the hoisin sauce, water, soy sauce and sriracha. Stir to make sure
  everything is incorporated and press out or whisk any lumps in the starch.
• 7 Increase heat to high and simmer until the sauce begins to steam (about a
  minute) and then reduce heat back to medium.
• 8 Gently drop the meatballs into the sauce. Let simmer a minute to set and then
  gently rotate so they are fully coated in sauce.
• 9 Cover and reduce heat to medium then simmer the meatballs for 20 minutes.
• 10 Taste the sauce and add any additions you think are necessary. More spicy
  sriracha or salty soy sauce for example. When ready to serve top the meatballs
  with more sesame seeds and green onion. Serve hot.

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