Take your tuna meal prep to the restaurant with these Sweet and Sour Tuna Balls! This high protein meatball recipe is absolutely delicious, made with simple ingredients like your canned tuna, and takes just a few minutes to prep!
The first thing you need to do for this one is to take out and add into a large mixing bowl 2 5 ounce cans of drained tuna. After you add it in you’ll want to break it up a bit so that it mixes in easier.
Continue by adding into your bowl 2 large whole eggs, 1/4 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1 tablespoon of low sodium soy sauce, 2 tablespoons of ketchup, 1 tablespoon rice vinegar, 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, 5 teaspoon of light brown sugar, and 1 cup of Japanese style bread crumbs.
Mix all of those ingredients up until everything is well incorporated. I like using a (washed) hand to do this!
Take out a baking sheet and optionally line it for easy clean up. Both aluminum foil and parchment paper are great for lining!
Shape your sweet and sour tuna balls however big you want them and put them onto your baking sheet. Repeat this step until your mix is gone.
Put your tuna meatballs into the oven on 375F/190C for around 10-20 minutes. Keep in mind that your cooking time will change depending on the size of your meatballs. The cooking time here is based off of 6 meatballs.
Remove your sweet and sour tuna balls them from the oven and top them with whatever you want! I topped mine with a couple drops of honey. Let us know what you top your tuna meatballs with in the comments below!
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Sweet and Sour Tuna Balls
What We Used
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Ingredients
- 2 Cans Tuna
- 2 Large Whole Eggs
- 1 Tablespoon Soy Sauce - Low Sodium
- 1 Tablespoon Rice Vinegar
- 2 Tablespoons Ketchup
- 1 Tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar
- 5 Teaspoons Light Brown Sugar
- ¼ Teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1 Cup Bread Crumbs - Japanese Style
Instructions
- Drain your Tuna
- Combine all of your ingredients into a bowl
- Mix everything together
- Take out a baking sheet and line it for easy clean up
- Shape your mix into balls
- Put them onto the baking sheet
- Bake on 375F/190C for 10-20 minutes
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Notes
- Calories: 742
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 3g
- Sodium: 1750mg
- Carbs: 83g
- Fiber: 2g
- Sugar: 30g
- Protein: 71g
- Calories: 123
- Fat: 2.3g
- Saturated Fat: .5g
- Sodium: 291.6mg
- Carbs: 13.8g
- Fiber: .3g
- Sugar: 5g
- Protein: 11.6g
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Could we make it without the breadcrumbs?!
You could try substituting them with something like oats!
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These are very good! I actually cut the carbs by doubling the recipe but still using only 1 cup whole wheat bread crumbs. Baked for 20 mins and they are tender and moist, holding together just fine. We had them for dinner with stir fried bok choy and yellow peppers with red chile flakes. Sweet, sour and spicy.