I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Heinz Vinegar. I received a product sample to facilitate my review and as a thank you for participating.
Ok, confession here. I usually don’t like sweet and sour things together. If they are separate then I enjoy both foods but once they come together for a dish I get turned off immediately. Another strange fact about me is that I love fruit but once it gets combined with bread, desserts or other recipes I don’t like it. Strange I know.
I was asked to try out some Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar filtered and unfiltered. Now, I have a TON of the regular Heinz vinegar products but I have never attempted to cook with the apple flavor. I checked out the Heinz website for recipe suggestions and I found this sweet and sour meatball recipe using the apple cider vinegar.
Done deal.
About Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar (Taken from Heinz Vinegar Website)
This recipe was also going to make me step outside of my comfort zone by adding sweet and sour together, not to mention adding pineapple to the meat. This dish was a BIG success and we were able to enjoy these meatballs the next night as well.
If you are looking for other ways to incorporate vinegar into your daily life check out this Pinterest board. Also, for this recipe I used the filtered Heinz Apple Cider Vinegar.
Drain the pineapple juice and place the pineapple to the side. Add water, vinegar, sugar and ginger to the bowl and stir.
Add the beef, bread crumbs, milk, egg and salt to a large bowl. Mix everything with your hands and then make balls the size of 1 Tbsp.
Add the oil to a large skillet over medium heat. Drop the meatballs into the skillet and brown each side. Pour in the pineapple juice and cover. Let it simmer for 20 minutes. Stir in the crushed pineapple along with the cornstarch. Stir until sauce thickens up.
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I never even paid attention to “filtered” and “unfiltered” before! Interesting. These meatballs are my kind of thing. I’m glad that you stepped outside of your comfort zone. 🙂
We love sweet and sour anything around here!! These look awesome!
It’s my go to vinegar for everything. I love the idea of it in a meatball…I mean wow!!
Isn’t it fun to step outside of what we are used to? For the most part I’m usually glad I tried something new. Love these meatballs, they are right down my alley!!
This is such a fabulous classic recipe. What’s funny is you reminded me of that commercial where they talk about sweet or sour not sweet and sour – they end up with sour chicken ha.
These look so fantastic!
My husband loves all things sweet and sour! These wouldn’t last long at my house!
I always hesitate with sweet and sour together too. Sweet and Salty too, but I am just kind of strange 🙂 I love meatballs though, so I definitely would give these a try!
hi, i was wondering if you could explain the recipe to me a little clearer.
What bowl do we add the water, vinegar,sugar and ginger too? is it the Pineapple juice? or the meat mixture.. I would love to prepare this this weekend. It sounds Delish
Hey Beth,
You will add the water, vinegar, sugar and ginger to the pineapple juice bowl. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Meagan
Ooooooooh! I want 47 of these little delicious, savory meatballs!