Barbecue Pork Meatballs
Make these because the recipe is easy and the taste, a blend of spice and tender pork, bring your guests back for more. Make small, medium or large and serve as tasty appetizerrs, a light barbecued meatball sandwich for lunch or combine with Mac and cheese or a pasta dish.
Servings 10
Equipment
- 1 cookie sheet layered with parchmernt paper
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground pork
- 1 small onion chopped fine
- 1 large egg
- 2 Tb parsley (fine-chopped) and optional
- 1 cup Ritz crackers (crumbs)
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
Buzz Savories Barbecue Sauce
- 2 8 oz cans unseasoned tomato sauce
- ¼ cup cider vinegar
- 2 Tb Worchestershire sauce
- ¼ cup molasses
- 2 Tb Spicy Beer Mustard or Honey Mustard
- 1 pinch red chili flakes or a tsp. of your favorite hot saucer
- ½ tsp salt or more to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 Degrees and layer parchment paper on a cookie sheet
- In a small bowl whisk together the tomato sauce, vinegar, molasses, Buzz Savories Spicy Beer Mustard or Honey Mustard, and seasonings.
- Pour the sauce into a medium sauce pan and bring to a simmer, stirring to blend all ingredients and simmer for 15 minutes then cool
- Combine the pork, onion, egg, parsley (if using), Ritz cracker crumbs, salt, pepper into a large mixing bowl
- Add 1/3 cup of the sauce to the pork mixture and use your hands to mix the ingredients until combined.
- Using a spoon or scoop shape the mixture into small meatballs, (or medium or large) and set each one onto the cookie sheet
- Glaze each meatball with the glaze and glaze again every 12-15 minutes of baking time and final glaze when the meatballs are roasted to desired termperature.
- Bake until the meatballs are either medium well or well done aproximately 15 or more minutes according to the size of the meat balls (160 Degrees F)
- Use remaining sauce as a dipping sauce