Sesame Pork Meatballs

These sesame pork meatballs will absolutely blow your mind!

They're uber flavorful and are served with a super fresh and simple cucumber salad that really rounds out the meal.

Start making your grocery list and get cooking!

How to make sesame pork meatballs

Featured Ingredients

For the sesame meatballs:

• Ground pork: The most juicy and flavorful of the ground meats, in my opinion.
• Eggs and breadcrumbs: To hold everything together.
• Cilantro: Provides fresh herbiness and a pop of color and flavor.
• Brown sugar: For a hint of sweetness.
• Soy sauce: For that umami and rich flavor.
• Toasted sesame oil: Because they're sesame meatballs.
• Sriracha: A little heat, of choice.
• Garlic and ginger: Because you need garlic and ginger in sesame meatballs.

For the cucumber salad:

• Cucumber and carrot: I like to thinly slice them lengthwise, but chop them however you like.
• Rice wine vinegar: For a little acidity and pop.
• Toasted sesame oil: To bring that sesame flavor home. Be sure it's toasted oil!
• Crushed red pepper flakes: For a little more heat.

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Coat a baking sheet fitted with a wire rack with cooking spray. Set aside.
2. To make meatballs, thoroughly mix all of the meatball ingredients together in a bowl.
3. Form 2-inch meatballs and place on the wire rack about an inch apart.
4. Bake 15-18 minutes, until internal temperature of meatballs reaches 145 degrees.
5. To make cucumber salad, toss together all ingredients.
6. Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary.
7. Serve salad with meatballs.

Recipe Substitutions and Alterations

• For the pork: Swap for ground turkey, chicken or beef.
• For the cilantro: Leave it out if you don't like it.
• For the Sriracha: Try gochujang or any chili garlic paste.
• For serving: Serve with fluffy rice and the cucumber salad or stuff the meatballs in lettuce cups.

Nutrition Considerations

• To make them gluten free: Use gluten free breadcrumbs.
  • Use low sodium tamari instead of soy sauce.
  • Be sure all other ingredients are gluten free.
• To make them dairy free: This recipe does not contain dairy.
• To make them nut free: This recipe does not contain nuts.
  • Be sure all ingredients are nut free.
  • FYI, this recipe contains sesame.
• To make them egg free: Try with an egg replacer such as Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer or a flax 'egg' (although I haven't tested this).

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