These Sweet and Sour Meatballs are a perfect super easy Weight Watchers appetizer to make, toss into your Crockpot and enjoy with guests. With the new updated Weight Watchers FreeStyle Plan, these are only 1 SmartPoint per serving!
Sweet and Sour Meatballs
A great meatball recipe starts with amazing flavor in the seasonings. When you are trying to eat healthier, as we always are, then you want to cut out some of the fat. Traditional meatballs include both beef and pork, and occasionally sausage. That means there is a lot of added fat that just adds calories. Yes, when you make with lean ground meat, you sacrifice a bit of the moisture and flavor, but we kick up the sauce to really make a difference.
Ingredients for Sweet and Sour Meatballs
1 pound 99% fat-free ground turkey breast or ground chicken breast
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon cumin
¼ cup teriyaki sauce
¼ cup sugar-free BBQ sauce
⅛ cup apple cider vinegar
1 tablespoon brown sugar twin
Directions for Sweet and Sour Meatballs
In a large bowl, mix together ground meat and spices (salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, and cumin). Mix until well blended.
In a small bowl, mix together the teriyaki sauce, BBQ sauce, apple cider vinegar, and brown sugar twin.
Add ¼ cup of sauce mixture to meat mixture and mix well.
Roll meat mixture into 1 ½" balls. Should make about 18 meatballs
Place meatballs on a lined baking sheet (we use silicone baking mats) about 1" apart
Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Turn meatballs, and cook for additional 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and toss with sauce until well coated.
- 1 pound 99% Ground Turkey breast or Ground Chicken Breast
- ½ Teaspoon Salt
- 1 Teaspoon Black Pepper
- 1 Teaspoon Onion Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Paprika
- 1 Teaspoon Cumin
- ¼ teriyaki sauce
- ¼ Cup Sugar-Free BBQ Sauce
- ⅛ cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar twin
- In a large bowl, mix together ground meat and spices (salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, and cumin). Mix until well blended.
- In a small bowl, mix together the teriyaki sauce, BBQ sauce, apple cider vinegar, and brown sugar twin.
- Add ¼ cup of sauce mixture to meat mixture and mix well.
- Roll meat mixture into 1½" balls. Should make about 12 meatballs
- Place meatballs on a lined baking sheet (we use silicone baking mats) about 1" apart
- Bake at 375 degrees for 10 minutes. Turn meatballs, and cook for additional 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and toss with sauce until well coated.
Makes 6 servings of 3 meatballs per serving
4 PointsPlus
4 SmartPoints on Beyond the Scale
1 SmartPoint on FreeStyle Plan or Flex Plan
These yummy sweet and sour meatballs are a great and easy appetizer to share with friends and family at your next event. Use fun little toothpicks or cocktail forks like we did to make them easy to grab and eat as an appetizer.
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Tiffany
Great idea but these meatballs completely fall apart. Good taste though. I ended up just serving them over cauliflower rice.
LYNDA D MITCHELL
I’m going to try the meatballs. They look amazing. The points are listed so I know up front how many in a serving and how many points! That’s really important tome!