Sugar Plum Meatballs

Ingredients

Meatballs

1 lb ground beef

1 lb ground turkey

1 1/2 cup of each brown rice, diced onion and diced celery

1 tsp Creole Seasoning (Tony Cacheres Original is excellent!)

1/2 tsp each of pepper, garlic powder, parsley, onion powder and Worchester sauce

Panko bread crumbs or oatmeal flakes as needed

3 egg whites

3-4 tbsp walnuts, finely chopped

Sugar Plum Sauce:

12 oz bottle of Heinz chili sauce

8-10 oz jar of plum sauce

2 tbsp orange juice

1 tbsp jalapeno juice

1 tbsp Worchester sauce

2 tbsp pomegranate juice

1 1/2 cups BBQ sauce

3 tbsp honey

1 tbsp mango jam or preserves

3 tbsp apricot jam or preserves

1-2 tsp chili flakes

How to Make It

For the Meatballs: Mix all meatball ingredients. Use a small sized cookie scoop to form meatballs and bake on cookie sheets about 30-40 minutes until done. Yeild 60-70 bite sized meatballs.

For Sugar Plum Sauce: Combine chili sauce, plum sauce, orange juice, jalapeno juice, worchester sauce and pomegranate juice in a saucepan and bring to a low boil. Slowly stir in bbq sauce, honey, jam and chili flakes. Simmer for about 25 minutes allowing sauce to thicken.

Place cooked meatballs in sauce, serve and enjoy.

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