Current mood:	accomplished
Entry tags:	beef, garlic, hamburger, onion, photos, pineapples, recipes, rice, soy sauce, vinegar

Yesterday I tried something new. Since being diagnosed as celiac, I find myself trying more new things and most of the time from scratch.
Even the most dull to most is exciting to me at this point in the game.
For example, I have never had porcupine meatballs. So yesterday I made them but I substituted more than half the rice with black forbidden rice. I also made a sweet and sour sauce to go with it instead of the usual tomato sauce I kept finding in most recipes.


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The recipe


PORCUPINE SWEET AND SOUR MEATBALLS

1 1/2 lb. ground beef
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup raw rice
1 egg
salt and pepper, to taste
2 cups beef broth
20 oz. can pineapple chunks
1 tbsp. corn starch
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup vinegar
1 tablespoon soy sauce

Combine ground beef, onion, garlic, rice, egg and salt and pepper in bowl. Shape into medium sized meatballs and place in Dutch oven. Add beef broth and simmer over low heat (do not boil) until done for about 75 minutes, skimming off any fat which rises to the surface while cooking.

Drain syrup from the pineapple and set aside. Combine corn starch and brown sugar in a saucepan. Add syrup, vinegar and soy sauce. Bring to a boil and reduce heat. Cook over medium-low heat until thick and syrupy.

Pour sauce over meatballs and carefully stir in the pineapple. Simmer 10 minutes.