Sweet n Sour Meatballs on Rice (crockpot recipe)

It was really cold out today and I wanted to make something in the crock pot for dinner.  My oven is still broke :-( but I love using the crock pot!!  I found a recipe for Sweet n Sour Meatballs that sounded really good.  It was super "Simple" to make and I only had to buy a few things I was out of.

Ingredients:

1 pound ground beef, lean

1 egg, slightly beaten

4 tablespoons cornstarch, divided

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1 tablespoon dried chopped onion

1 tablespoon cooking oil

3 tablespoons vinegar

1 can pineapple, chunks (15 ounces)

1/2 cup sugar

1 tablespoon soy sauce, low salt

1 large green pepper, cut into pieces

hot cooked rice

Directions:

• In a bowl, combine ground beef, egg, 1 tablespoon cornstarch, salt, pepper, and onion. Shape into 1 1/2 in balls. In a large skillet, lightly brown meatballs in oil. Drain fat. Transfer meatballs to Crock pot.
• Stir together in a small bowl, vinegar, sugar, soy sauce, remaining cornstarch and green pepper. Pour over meatballs. Cover and cook on Low 6 to 8 hours or on High for 2 to 4 hours. In the last 30 minutes of cooking, stir in can of pineapple. Serve over hot cooked rice.

I did not use onions or green peppers.  When I used 1 lb of hamburger meat it didn't seem like much so I ended up using X4 of everything.  We ended up with enough for everyone plus some (about 24 big meatballs)

Let me know if you try this or make something similar.  I would love to hear!! :o) 

 

~Keeping Dinner SIMPLE~

Sweet and Sour Meatballs over Rice Recipe 

Thanks to CDKitchen for the recipe