Sweet and Sour Meatballs

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 lb. 93% or 96% lean ground beef
• 1/4 cup onion

  finely diced
• 3/4 cup 4C Gluten Free Italian bread crumbs

  or use regular bread crumbs
• 1 tsp. pink Himalayan sea salt
• 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
• 1 tbsp. avocado oil

  or coconut oil
• 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
• 2 tbsp. low sodium, gluten free soy sauce
• 13.5 oz. can pineapple chunks

  reserve juice
• 1/2 cup brown sugar

  packed
• 1 clove garlic

  minced
• 2 tbsp. cornstarch
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 red bell pepper

  sliced in strips
• 1 orange bell pepper

  sliced in strips
• 1 can water chestnuts

  sliced and drained
• 2 cups hot, cooked rice

Instructions

• 1 Combine beef, bread crumbs, onion, salt and pepper in a large mixing bowl; mix
  thoroughly with your hands.
• 2 Form into 1” balls.
• 3 Brown meatballs in hot oil in skillet over medium heat.
• 4 Cook meatballs thoroughly until no pink remains turning meatballs frequently.
• 5 Combine pineapple juice, vinegar, brown sugar, soy sauce and garlic in a small
  mixing bowl with a whisk.
• 6 Set aside.
• 7 Add bell peppers to skillet with meatballs and saute about 3-5 minutes.
• 8 Add pineapple chunks and water chestnuts.
• 9 Stir to combine.
• 10 Add soy sauce mixture to meatballs in skillet and heat through about 5 minutes.
• 11 Mix cornstarch and water.
• 12 Stir cornstarch mixture into sauce in skillet to thicken.
• 13 Heat through about 5 minutes until sauce thickens appropriately.
• 14 Serve over hot, cooked rice.

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