Recipe- Perfect For Dinner Pineapple Meatballs

Homemade pineapple meatballs are a breeze to make and delicious to eat. They're made with tender baked pork and beef meatballs in a tangy BBQ sauce with lots of pineapple chunks. Serve them with rice for dinner or skewered onto toothpicks as an appetizer. If you love meatballs as much as we do, also try our lemongrass Vietnamese meatballs, sweet hoisin meatballs, and our firecracker meatballs!

Sweet and tangy pineapple meatballs are hard to resist. We make them with a juicy and flavorful mix of beef and pork then finish them in a Hawaiian-inspired BBQ sauce with lots of big pineapple chunks. They're a real crowd-pleaser.

Ingredients

Meatballs

1 lb lean ground beef
1 lb lean ground pork
1 cup breadcrumbs, can be gluten-free
½ cup milk, can be unsweetened dairy-free milk
1 teaspoon EACH: garlic powder, onion, powder, sea salt, and black pepper
½ teaspoon chili flakes, optional

Pineapple Sauce

20 ounce can pineapple chunks
1 cup BBQ sauce
¼ cup soy sauce, can be gluten-free
¼ cup rice vinegar
1 tablespoon grated ginger
Chopped green onions to serve

Method

- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

- Mix the meatball ingredients in a large bowl. Form the meat into 1 ½ inch balls – a medium-sized cookie scoop works great for this.

- Place the meatballs onto the baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until they're browned and cooked through.

- While the meatballs are cooking, make the sauce. Drain the can of pineapples into a large, high-sided frying pan. Add the BBQ sauce, soy sauce, vinegar, and ginger.

- Bring to a simmer over medium heat then continue to simmer until the sauce reduces and is as thick as BBQ sauce.

- When the meatballs have finished cooking, add them to the sauce.

- Add the pineapple chunks to the pan and let them warm for a few minutes.

- Serve the Hawaiian meatballs with some chopped green onions over the top.