{"id":1248,"date":"2020-10-19T10:45:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T10:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/?post_type=recipe&#038;p=1248"},"modified":"2020-10-26T10:54:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T10:54:26","slug":"chineseish-sweet-n-sour-meatballs","status":"publish","type":"recipe","link":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/recipe\/chineseish-sweet-n-sour-meatballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese(ish) Sweet n Sour Meatballs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Chinese restaurants in the UK, I always see something called Sweet and Sour Pork Balls, or Chicken Balls, on the menu and it strikes me as the weirdest description of a dish. It usually is battered deep fried pieces of chicken or pork, round, floating in a neon red, sugary, sweet and sour sauce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is nothing like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my usual vein of meatballs and the meat plus fruit kick that I\u2019m constantly on, I decided that I needed to use the title of the weird Chinese dish as my inspiration and then come up with something completely different. These are meatballs with a five spice and chipotle chilli kick. Super easy to whip up and, because they are coated in the sesame seeds, they store well and travel well. Meaning, you can pop them in a zip lock bag and take them with you on a hike, a cycle, to work, while commuting, whatever. Convenience food!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/DSC_3452-1024x679.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1250\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Chinese restaurants in the UK, I always see something called Sweet and Sour Pork Balls, or Chicken Balls, on the menu and it strikes me as the weirdest description of a dish. It usually is battered deep fried pieces of chicken or pork, round, floating in a neon red, sugary, sweet and sour sauce.&nbsp; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"recipe-course":[98,58],"recipe-cuisine":[],"recipe-cooking-method":[],"recipe-tag":[63,61,62],"recipe-key":[32,44,20,39,38,23,21],"recipe-badge":[],"recipe-dietary":[],"class_list":["post-1248","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","recipe-course-all-recipes","recipe-course-snacks","recipe-tag-chinese","recipe-tag-meatballs","recipe-tag-snacks","recipe-key-dairy-free","recipe-key-egg-free","recipe-key-gluten-free","recipe-key-high-protein","recipe-key-keto","recipe-key-low-carb","recipe-key-paleo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe\/1248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/recipe"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"recipe-course","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-course?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-cuisine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-cuisine?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-cooking-method","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-cooking-method?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-tag?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-key","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-key?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-badge?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"recipe-dietary","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecreativecaveman.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/recipe-dietary?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}