General Tso Meatballs Recipe
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 259kcal
If you enjoy General Tso Chicken or are a meatball lover like me, then you'll flip for these chicken meatballs with General Tso Sauce. General Tso Meatballs recipe.
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Ingredients
- Meatballs
- 1 pound ground chicken
- 1 egg yolk
- ½ cup-¾ cup plain breadcrumbs or Panko
- 2 TBS garlic paste or 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 TBS ginger paste or ½ teaspoon dried ginger
- If you like spicy add in a pinch or two of red pepper flakes
- Sauce
- ¾ cup low sodium soy sauce
- 6 TBS rice wine vinegar
- ¼ cup water
- 2 TBS hoisin sauce
- 2 TBS brown sugar
- 1 TBS garlic paste or make a paste from a large clove of garlic
- ½ TBS ginger paste or teaspoon minced ginger
- Optional 1 teaspoon cornstarch
Instructions
- Combine all meatball ingredients in a bowl, mix together and form into meatballs.
- When ready to cook, pan-fry them in a small amount of grapeseed or olive oil. I start with 1 ½ TBS and add more when needed. Fry in batches so they can be turned gently to allow even browning.
- Turn often browning as many "sides" of the meatball as you can.
- Remove meatballs from pan, if excess oil remains, pour it out.
- Add in sauce ingredients to the pan and bring to a boil and reduce by 20%.
- If you would like your sauce a little thicker, spoon out 2 TBS of the sauce into a ramekin and stir in 1 teaspoon of cornstarch, stir until dissolved and add it back into the sauce allowing it to simmer for 30 seconds and it becomes fully mixed in.
- Add meatballs back to the pan and simmer until cooked through.
- Sprinkle with sliced scallions and serve alone or over rice,
Notes
Tip, you can make this with all ground chicken breast meat which I normally do. If you enjoy dark meat, you can make these chicken meatballs with ground dark meat or a combination of white and dark ground chicken.
Low sodium soy sauce is best to reduce saltiness. That's the only type I typically purchase.
Garlic paste contains sodium, if sodium is an issue use fresh minced garlic.
Nutrition
Serving: 4servings | Calories: 259kcal | Carbohydrates: 15g | Protein: 26g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 146mg | Sodium: 2635mg | Potassium: 742mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 66IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 42mg | Iron: 2mg