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Sesame Soy Meatballs
Recipe via Cooking Light
Serves 4
Ingredients
2 tbsp brown sugar
3 tbsp low sodium soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp chili paste (I actually used curry paste)
1/4 tsp salt
6 garlic cloves (minced)
1 lb lean ground beef
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400F.
Combine first 6 ingredients in a bowl, mix well. Add beef, mix gently to combine. (I'd advise making a little extra sauce and set some aside for later). Shape beef mixture into 1 1/2" meatballs (mine made about 20).
Heat a large cast iron skillet over medium-high heat (to be honest you could just use a frying pan probably... I used the case iron skillet and it created a lot of smoke, so depends how good your vent hood is!). Add half of the meatballs to the pan, cook 4 minutes, turning to brown all sides. Repeat with remaining meatballs. Arrange browned meatballs into a single layer on a pan coated with cooking spray (preferrably something with sides higher than a cookie sheet so that the grease doesn't overflow - I was surprised how much grease came out of mine even though I bought 96/4 ground beef. And actually, if you have one of those meatloaf pans that automatically drains/collects the grease, use that!). Bake the meatballs for 7 minutes or until done.
Serve over rice or couscous and top with the extra sauce to keep it from being too dry. I used couscous and mixed in a tbsp of curry paste & tiny bit of sriracha sauce to spice it up and also served with sugar snap peas (bought frozen).
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 6-7 meatballs, 1c peas, ~1c couscous (1/4c uncooked)
Calories: 550
Carbs: 45g
Fat: 23g
Protein: 18g
Sugar: 5g
Sodium: 500mg
This is slightly higher calorie than the other recipes I've posted, but not too bad. And now that I look at it, thats a lot of fat! Most of it comes from the sesame oil so I suppose it is "good fat" but you could always cut back on the oil if you wanted to reduce the fat & calories a bit.
Hope you enjoy this recipe, it was fun to try something different, and also gave me the idea to add some flavoring to couscous my mixing in a bit of sauce to spice up an otherwise boring side. And it is much easier than making a whole couscous or quinoa salad with multiple ingredients. Would work for rice too!
Instructions
Preheat oven to 400F.
Combine first 6 ingredients in a bowl, mix well. Add beef, mix gently to combine. (I'd advise making a little extra sauce and set some aside for later). Shape beef mixture into 1 1/2" meatballs (mine made about 20).
Heat a large cast iron skillet over medium-high heat (to be honest you could just use a frying pan probably... I used the case iron skillet and it created a lot of smoke, so depends how good your vent hood is!). Add half of the meatballs to the pan, cook 4 minutes, turning to brown all sides. Repeat with remaining meatballs. Arrange browned meatballs into a single layer on a pan coated with cooking spray (preferrably something with sides higher than a cookie sheet so that the grease doesn't overflow - I was surprised how much grease came out of mine even though I bought 96/4 ground beef. And actually, if you have one of those meatloaf pans that automatically drains/collects the grease, use that!). Bake the meatballs for 7 minutes or until done.
Serve over rice or couscous and top with the extra sauce to keep it from being too dry. I used couscous and mixed in a tbsp of curry paste & tiny bit of sriracha sauce to spice it up and also served with sugar snap peas (bought frozen).
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 6-7 meatballs, 1c peas, ~1c couscous (1/4c uncooked)
Calories: 550
Carbs: 45g
Fat: 23g
Protein: 18g
Sugar: 5g
Sodium: 500mg
This is slightly higher calorie than the other recipes I've posted, but not too bad. And now that I look at it, thats a lot of fat! Most of it comes from the sesame oil so I suppose it is "good fat" but you could always cut back on the oil if you wanted to reduce the fat & calories a bit.
Hope you enjoy this recipe, it was fun to try something different, and also gave me the idea to add some flavoring to couscous my mixing in a bit of sauce to spice up an otherwise boring side. And it is much easier than making a whole couscous or quinoa salad with multiple ingredients. Would work for rice too!
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