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Boiled Sweet and Sour Meatballs


Title: Boiled Sweet and Sour Meatballs
Categories: None
Yield: 1 Servings

3 Eggs
3 lb Ground Beef (many times I
-mix grd beef & grd turkey)
Bread/Bread Crumbs or Matzah
-Meal, equivilent of 1 piece
-of bread per lb of meat
1/2 ts Each: garlic powder, onion
-powder and pepper

-----------------------------------SAUCE-----------------------------------
2 cn (16 oz) tomato sauce
1/2 c Brown sugar (up to 1)
1/4 c White sugar (up to 1/2)
3 tb Grape jelly (up to 7)
4 tb Lemon juice

To make: Wet bread (if using bread and not crumbs or matzah meal), mix the
bread or the crumbs/meal in with the meat, eggs and spices. Mix well. Shape
meat into meatballs -- not too small as they boil down a bit. Boil water
(1/2 fill a large pot with water) Drop meatballs into boiling water. Boil
for 20-30 minutes. Skim fat off the top.

Add the sauce ingredients: Gently boil until meatballs are done -- about 20
mins.

They get better after they sit for a day or so in the frige in their sauce!

From: "Andrea Herrera" Posted to JEWISH-FOOD digest V97
#205 by jefffree@eskimo.com on Jun 28, 1997