Thursday, January 19, 2012

Oriental Meatballs

2 pkg. Ramen Noodles

Sauce:
2 tsp. cornstarch or flour
1 tsp. soy sauce
1 tsp. vinegar
1/8-1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper
1 c. cold water
Ramen seasoning mix

Vegetables:
2 Tbs cooking oil (I used olive oil... and a lot more than 2 Tbs.)
4 c. cut broccoli or carrot, cauliflower, broccoli mix

Meatballs:
1/2 lb. hamburger
1/2 lb. ground sausage
1 egg
1/4 c. milk
2 slices oft bread broken in pieces
1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. parsley flakes
1/2 tsp. onion salt
1/4 tsp. garlic salt

Cook the ramen noodles separately and put aside. Mix all the meatball goo together with your hands and form 1 inch balls. Cook over medium heat in a large covered skillet approx 8 minutes. Turn the meatballs over and cook another 10 minutes. (I don't have a skillet with a lid! My meatballs required a lot more turning and less than medium heat. Watch out for them being burned to a crisp.)

In a separate pan, stir fry the vegetables for a about 5 minutes. Then add the meatballs, noodles and sauce.

Now for the sauce, I think someone needs to venture out and figure out a better way for this. The recipe from cooks.com said to just mix it all together, but I think it was making assumptions about my sauce making skills (and meatball making skills for that matter) Basically I put it all together and poured it in the stir fry mix and it turned out fine, but I feel like that was dumb luck.

Start to finish this took about an hour to make.

Micah loved this. Next time I might just not use sausage and do all beef instead cause I'm not a big sausage fan. Also, it doesn't taste as "Oriental" as I was thinking it would. But don't get me wrong- it was yummers!

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