Description
Meatballs and sweet peppers in a savory black bean sauce make a memorable meal for the whole family.
Ingredients
Scale
Meatballs
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 pound of ground turkey
- 1/2 cup onion, diced small
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon cilantro, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
- 1/4 ground black pepper
Sauce
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons water or chicken stock
- 1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or sherry
- 1 tablespoon toasted sesame oil
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce (or more to taste)
- 2 inch piece of ginger, peeled and grated (about a tablespoon)
- 3 tablespoons black bean garlic sauce
Other Ingredients
- 1 red sweet pepper and 1 orange sweet pepper, both large diced
- 1 medium yellow onion, large diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
Instructions
- Prepare the meatball mixture: In a large bowl, mix together the ground turkey, onion, garlic, cilantro, salt and pepper with your hands until just combined. Roll into approximately 20 1 inch meatballs. This can be done the morning or the day before and stored in a covered container in the fridge.
- Prep the peppers, onion and garlic and set aside.
- Mix together the sauce ingredients in a small bowl and set aside.
- Heat the vegetable oil for the meatballs in a large sauté pan over medium heat. Brown the meatballs in batches, don’t crowd the pan! Remove the browned meatballs from the pan and set aside.
- Add the peppers, onions and garlic to the sauté pan, also adding an additional tablespoon of vegetable oil if necessary. Turn the heat up to medium high. Sauté until the veggies are slightly softened and browned in spots, about 5 minutes.
- Add the meatballs back to the pan, and then pour the sauce in too. Stir-fry gently to mix. While stirring, let the sauce start to bubble and thicken, about 3 minutes.
- Pour into your serving bowl and enjoy with rice or noodles.
Notes
I used ground turkey, but you can use whatever ground meat you have, beef, chicken or pork. You can also use whatever kind of bell peppers you can get at your store, red, orange or yellow. Green bell peppers are fine in a pinch too, they just aren’t as sweet!
