Adapted from http://www.cooks.com/recipe/4i5gf8mr/meatballs-hawaiian.html
Hawaiian Meatballs
Serves: 6
Ingredients
Meatballs:
- 1 20 oz can pineapple chunks, drained with juice reserved
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 lb lean ground beef or chicken or turkey
- ½ cup instant oatmeal
- ¼ tsp Mrs Dash Steak Grilling Seasoning blend OR Mrs Dash Chicken Grilling Seasoning blend
- ⅛ tsp allspice
- ⅛ tsp ground cloves
- 1 Tbsp instant minced onion
- 2 Tbsp reserved pineapple juice
- ½ Tbsp canola oil
- Optional: 1 bell pepper, seeds removed, chopped into large pieces
Sauce:
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup no-salt catsup
- ⅓ cup pineapple juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Select a casserole dish large enough for all of the meatballs to be placed in a single layer. Spray the casserole dish with cooking spray or oil it lightly with canola oil.
- Chop the pineapple into small pieces.
- Mix all of the meatball ingredients and form meatballs about the size of golf balls.
- Heat canola oil in a medium high skillet. Brown the meatballs in a skillet on all sides. Drain.
- Place meatballs in the casserole dish in a single level. Cover and bake 30 minutes.
- Mix together the sauce ingredients. Pour over the coked meatballs. Optional: add the bell pepper pieces. Cover the casserole dish, return it to the oven, and bake 15 more minutes.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 4 oz. Sodium: 52 mg. Note that sodium percentages depend on which daily reference you use. The estimated 52 mg of sodium per serving implies that one serving of this recipe provides:
- 2% of the U.S. FDA daily reference value for sodium for a 2,000-calorie diet that includes 2,400 mg sodium, or
- 3% of the American Heart Association recommendation of 1,500 mg sodium per day, or
- 5% of the Ménière’s diet recommendation of 1,000 mg sodium per day.
(As is the case with all of the recipes on this web site, the nutrition information provided in this recipe is only an estimate based on nutrition information provided on the packaging of each of the ingredients we used in this recipe and/or on a variety of sources on the web. This information should be regarded as an opinion only, with no guarantees that it is accurate. Obviously, the nutritional information will vary depending on the ingredients and quantities that you use.)
