Recipe of Award-winning Chili Lemongrass Meatballs

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, chili lemongrass meatballs. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chili Lemongrass Meatballs is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chili Lemongrass Meatballs is something which I have loved my entire life.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chili lemongrass meatballs using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chili Lemongrass Meatballs:

1. Prepare 2.5 pounds ground pork
2. Get 2 teaspoons oil for sweating aromatics
3. Make ready 1/2 cup minced onion
4. Make ready 1/2 cup minced shallots
5. Get 3 Tablespoons minced garlic
6. Make ready 2-3 Tablespoons minced chili of your choice (I used serranos this time)
7. Make ready 1/4 cup very finely chopped lemongrass (just the white ends)
8. Take 1 large egg
9. Take zest of 1 lime
10. Take 3-4 Tablespoons finely chopped cilantro
11. Make ready 2.5 Tablespoons fish sauce
12. Get 1 Tablespoon sugar
13. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
14. Make ready 1-2 Tablespoons oil, depending on how fatty your ground pork is, for the meatball mix
15. Take 2 Tablespoons oil for rolling meatballs

For the meatballs: Mix together the beef, pork, ginger, fish sauce, vinegar, chili flakes, peppercorns Add the shrimp paste and stir-fry until toasted, and then stir in the lemongrass and coconut milk and. Crush the garlic, chili and sugar together with a mortar and pestle until the garlic and chili are crushed. Lemongrass is one of my favorite herbs when it comes to Asian cooking. It's floral without being cloying, lemony without being tart, and plays especially well with other aromatics like garlic, onion.

Instructions to make Chili Lemongrass Meatballs:

1. Sweat the onion, shallots, garlic, chilies, and lemongrass in the 2 teaspoons oil in a pre-heated medium pan for 4 minutes or so, or until the onions are translucent.
2. Preheat oven to 450F.
3. Combine all of the rest of the ingredients with the sweated onions, etc. in a large mixing bowl, and massage all ingredients together until they are just evenly incorporated.
4. Line a sheetpan or cookie sheet with foil, and lightly oil the foil.
5. Lightly oil your hands and form roughly 1 ¾” meatballs, placing them at least 1.5 inches away from the next meatball in your sheetpan or cookie sheet. The oil not only helps to keep the meatball mixture from sticking to your hands, but it helps the meatball sear more quickly, therefore retaining the juices.
6. Place the sheetpan in the oven so that the top of the meatballs is about 4 inches away from the top heat element. (Usually either the first or second rack in most ovens.) Bake for 13 minutes.
7. Then turn the oven to broil and broil an additional minute to two minutes to achieve desired browning on top.
8. Enjoy! :)

Lemongrass is one of my favorite herbs when it comes to Asian cooking. It's floral without being cloying, lemony without being tart, and plays especially well with other aromatics like garlic, onion. This spicy meatball recipe, made with ground beef (or ground pork), chili powder and cumin, tastes great with rice These flavorful chili-seasoned meatballs are great with hot cooked rice or potatoes. As an appetizer, serve the meatballs hot accompanied by the dipping sauce. For a main meal, serve with rice/noodles and a vegetable stir.

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