Oriental Meatball Salad Food

ASIAN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
• In a large mixing bowl, mixed together all of the ingredients except the ground beef.
• Add the ground beef and mix together with your hands until just combined. Then roll out 20 meatballs. They will be about 1-1.5 inches in diameter.
• Heat a skillet over medium high heat. Spray with a touch of cooking spray. Add the meatballs and cook for 4 minutes until browned on all sides.
• Finish cooking the meatballs in the oven for an additional 7-8 minutes or until cooked through. You can do this by placing your skillet in the oven if it is oven safe. If not, just pour the meatballs into a glass pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray and finish in the oven.

ORIENTAL MEATBALL SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl combine eggs and milk.
• Stir in bread crumbs.
• Add beef and mix gently.
• Shape into 3/4 inch meatballs.
• In skillet cook meatballs in oil about 10 minutes or until done.
• Turn frequently.
• Drain.
• Drain pineapple and reserve juice.
• Add water to juice to make ¾ cup liquid.
• In bowl combine pineapple chunks, green pepper, carrot, celery and meatballs.
• In small saucepan combine brown sugar, cornstarch.
• Stir in the pineapple liquid, wine, vinegar and soy sauce.
• Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.
• Pour hot dressing over meatball mixture.
• Cover and chill.
• To serve carefully stir tomato wedges into meatballs (or reserve tomatoes for garnish around salad).
• Place shredded lettuce on each of 4 serving plates.
• Carefully spoon meatball mixture on top.
• Sprinkle with rice or chow mein noodles if desired.

ORIENTAL MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Meatballs: Measure all ingredients into bowl. Mix well. Shape into 1 inch balls. Arrange on baking sheet. Bake at 350oF for 15 minutes.
• Sweet and Sour Sauce: Stir brown sugar, cornstarch and mustard powder together in saucepan. Stir in pineapple juice. Add vinegar, ketchup, water and soy sauce. Heat and stir until it boils and thickens. Sauce can be served seperately for dipping or can be poured over meatballs to serve from chafing dish.
• Makes 64 meatballs and 2 1/3 cup sauce.

ASIAN STEAMED PORK MEATBALLS, SESAME NOODLES & SALAD

Steps:

• Meatballs -- Combine the pork, mushrooms, scallions, garlic, rice cooking wine, hoisin sauce, salt & pepper. Mix everything together and then form meatballs. I make mine about golf ball size. TIP: After making them, I like to put them on a sheet on parchment and then put in the freezer for just 10 minutes as I start the noodles. This just helps when I go to saute them. It is optional, but does help.
• Noodles -- As the meatballs cool off, make the oriental noodles. Now if your grocer doesn't have oriental noodles in the Asian or Oriental Section, use spaghetti. Cook accordingly to the directions. Drain and add to a serving bowl.
• Mix the soy sauce, scallions, garlic, red pepper flakes, sesame oil and vegetable and pour over the noodles and toss. Cover and refrigerate. Sometimes before serving, I like to garnish with just a little sesame oil and peanuts if you want, but sometimes I don't. I like the simple flavors. but go easy, the sesame oil is very strong.
• Dipping Sauce -- Meatballs are almost ready, but make a quick 1 minute dipping sauce for them. Mix the soy, hoisin and lime. That is it. Just set it in a bowl to the side.
• Now -- Dipping sauce is done -- sesame noodles are done and chilling, meatballs are chilled and ready to cook. As they cook we will put a 5 minute salad together and dinner is served.
• Meatballs -- In non stick pan heat up the oil to medium high and add the meatballs. Just a few seconds on each side to get a little golden, but remember, we aren't trying to cook them, just a light sear is all. Not too long, maybe 2 minutes total is all you need. Then add the chicken broth and cover and let them simmer and steam on medium low to low. Should take about 10 minutes. Don't over crowd the pan by stacking the meatballs, but a big enough pan should work just fine. DON'T peak either.
• Salad -- Now the easy part. As the meatballs steam. Do a quick salad on the side. Slice up some Napa cabbage and add to a serving bowl, add a can of sliced water chestnuts, a can of mandarine oranges and thin slice a small red onion, and about 1/2 of a seedless cucumber, skin on is fine. Just toss and then serve with a quality sesame dressing. I don't like many bottled dressing but there are a few out there that are really pretty good. Make it easy on yourself. You can always add mushrooms, red peppers, or any other vegetables you like but I like it really simple for this salad.
• Now 3 courses and just 30-40 minutes.