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    Home » Recipes » Appetizers and Snacks

    Sesame Soy Cocktail Meatballs

    Serve these garlicky, sweet Sesame Soy Cocktail Meatballs as a flavorful appetizer or with steamed veggies and rice for a delicious, family-friendly meal.

    sesame soy cocktail meatball appetizer recipe on serving sticks or in crockpot
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    Packed with big, bold flavor from ginger, garlic, chili, scallions, sesame and soy this dish will become one of your frequently made favorites.

    Easy crowd-pleasing mini meatball appetizer recipe

    Sesame Soy Glazed Cocktail Meatballs are always quick to disappear when served as a mini meatball appetizer at parties.

    Lightly sweet, salty and full of umami rich flavor these little meatballs are such a crowd pleaser.

    A easy mini cocktail meatball recipe that’s perfect served as an appetizer or as a fast weeknight dinner!

    The best part is it doesn’t take much effort to make these flavor packed meatballs.

    meatball appetizer recipe

    Simply make a homemade sesame soy sauce using NEW P.F. Chang’s® Home Menu Soy Sauce and use it in the recipe three ways giving these mini appetizers big flavor fast.

    The homemade sesame soy dressing is used as a seasoning for the meatballs, a glaze and a dipping sauce. A standard trick I like to use in recipes like Blueberry Quinoa Salad and Sesame Chicken Salad to reduce the amount of work without sacrificing flavor.

    Ingredients

    • Soy sauce – NEW P.F. Chang’s® Home Menu Soy Sauce is lower sodium than regular soy giving you complete control of the salt level in your homemade sesame soy sauce. Find NEW P.F. Chang’s® Home Menu Soy Sauce with all the other delicious P.F. Chang’s® Home Menu Sauces in the Asian food aisle of your local grocer.
    • Ground beef – good quality sirloin. Either 80/20 or 70/30 mix.
    • Sesame oil
    • Chili garlic sauce – sambal olek or other similar chili sauce
    • Brown sugar
    • Egg
    • Chopped garlic
    • Panko bread crumbs
    • Scallions
    • Sesame seeds
    easy meatball recipe ingredients ground beef sesame soy chili sauce

    Content created with compensation by Collective Bias, Inc. and Conagra Brands. All opinions are mine alone. P.F. Chang‘s and PF Chang’s Home Menu® are registered trademarks owned by PF Chang’s China Bistro, Inc. and are used with permission.

    Step by step instructions

    1. Prepare sesame soy sauce dressing. Divide dressing in two, reserving half for later to use as a glaze and a dipping sauce.
    sesame soy sauce for meatballs recipe
    1. Use the other half of the flavorful homemade dressing to season the meatballs. Mix into ground beef. Then stir in panko bread crumbs, egg and scallions. 
    2. Form seasoned ground beef mixture into about fifty 1″ or twenty 2″ meatballs with a metal scoop or wet hands.
    3. Preheat oven to 400 degrees and place meatballs on parchment lined baking sheet. Bake meatballs in oven 25-30 minutes, glazing with roughly 2 tablespoons sauce halfway through.
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    1. Once cooked through garnish with sesame seeds and sliced scallions and serve with reserved sesame soy dressing.
    2. Enjoy!

    How to serve

    There are many different cocktail meatball sauces like grape jelly cocktail meatballs, italian cocktail meatballs and sweet and sour cocktail meatballs with grape jelly and chili sauce. These meatballs recipes are typically served as an appetizer by placing meatballs in crockpot and covering with sauce to keep warm.

    These asian style sesame soy meatballs can be served like any other classic crockpot meatballs recipe. Made ahead of time and served covered with sauce in the in a slow cooker.

    cocktail meatballs on a platter with appetizer picks

    Or you can serve meatballs as an appetizer lined up individually on a plate with separate serving forks and dipping sauce on the side.

    Or turn cocktail meatballs as a meal instead! With rice, vegetable and salad on the side.

    teriyaki sweet and sour ground beef meatballs dinner idea

    How to make ahead of time

    To make Sesame Soy Cocktail Meatballs ahead of time form meatballs and tightly cover then refrigerate before cooking for up to 5 days. Bake meatballs in the oven and serve as directed.

    Or freeze meatballs in a single layer on a baking sheet then transfer to freezer bags or vacuum bags and freeze for up to 3 months. Bake as directed from frozen, adding several minutes to the baking time.

    Alternately freeze meatballs after baking as directed. And reheat in the microwave or slow cooker before serving.

    sesame soy cocktail meatball appetizer recipe on serving sticks or in crockpot

    Sesame Soy Glazed Meatballs

    Serve these garlicky, sweet Sesame Soy Glazed Meatballs as a flavor packed appetizer or with steamed veggies and rice for a delicious, family-friendly meal.
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 25 minutes
    Total Time: 35 minutes
    Course: Appetizer
    Cuisine: Chinese
    glazed meatballs, meatball appetizer, sesame soy
    Servings: 4 people
    Calories: 803kcal
    Author: Tristin Rieken

    Ingredients

    sesame soy sauce

    • ¼ cup light brown sugar
    • ½ cup soy sauce
    • 2 tablespoons toasted sesame oil
    • 1 tablespoon chili garlic paste sambal olek
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 8 cloves garlic grated
    • 1 tablespoon fresh ginger grated, or ¼ teaspoon dried

    sesame soy meatballs

    • 2 pounds ground beef
    • 1 large egg
    • 1 cup panko bread crumbs
    • 3 medium scallions 1 sliced, 2 minced

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
    • Combine sugar, soy, sesame oil, chili paste, garlic, ginger and salt. set aside.
    • Add ¼ cup sesame soy sauce to ground beef in large bowl, reserve remaining.
    • Mix egg, panko, and scallions to the seasoned beef. Using a small scooop or moist hands shape into roughly 50 1″ meatballs for appetizers or 20 1 ½″ meatballs for a meal.
    • Place on prepared baking sheet and bake.
    • Meanwhile, stir sesame seeds into reserved sesame-soy sauce, then remove 2 tablespoons for glazing and keep the rest as a dipping sauce.
    • After 15 minutes in the oven, baste the meatballs with sesame-soy glaze and bake an additional 5-10 minutes or until cooked through.
    • Sprinkle with sesame seeds and sliced scallion and serve with dipping sauce.

    Notes

    Replace sesame soy sauce with any of the other P.F. Chang’s Home Menu®P.F. Chang’s Home Menu® sauces for an even easier option.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 803kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 44g | Fat: 54g | Saturated Fat: 18g | Cholesterol: 207mg | Sodium: 1702mg | Potassium: 789mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 180IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 111mg | Iron: 6.4mg
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    Nutrition Facts
    Sesame Soy Glazed Meatballs
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories 803 Calories from Fat 486
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 54g83%
    Saturated Fat 18g113%
    Cholesterol 207mg69%
    Sodium 1702mg74%
    Potassium 789mg23%
    Carbohydrates 31g10%
    Fiber 1g4%
    Sugar 15g17%
    Protein 44g88%
    Vitamin A 180IU4%
    Vitamin C 4mg5%
    Calcium 111mg11%
    Iron 6.4mg36%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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