Aromatic and lightly spiced, these Thai style pork meatballs are easy to make and utterly delicious served with sweet chilli sauce!
As well as being full of flavour, Thai takeaway style food is so fun to prepare and cook. With a range of aromatic curry pastes and ingredients available, spices and herbs are abundant and meals full of variety and taste can be prepared quickly. These delicious pork meatballs can be prepared and cooked in just a few minutes, perfect to pair with sticky rice and / or lettuce leaves.
Ingredients For Thai Style Pork Meatballs
These meatballs use flavourful and aromatic curry paste combined with pork mince for an easy meal with delicious results! You can, of course, use your own curry paste, or your favourite shop-bought brand will suffice. I like Mae Ploy red Thai curry paste.
How To Make Thai Style Pork Meatballs
To make Thai takeaway style pork meatballs, the ingredients are simply combined and meatballs shaped, before being fried briefly in a hot pan until nicely coloured and sizzling hot. The sticky rice in the mix helps the meatballs hold their shape, perfect for skewering with cocktail sticks and dipping into sweet chilli sauce.
Step 1: Meatball Mix
In a pestle and mortar, add 1 small shallot, finely chopped, 1 garlic clove, finely chopped, 1 Makrut lime leaf, thinly sliced and chopped and 1 teaspoon fresh coriander stems, finely chopped. Pound to a rough paste. Transfer the paste to a large bowl. Add 1 generous teaspoon red curry paste, 1 teaspoon fish sauce, Pinch turmeric, Pinch white pepper, Pinch black pepper, 125 grams pork mince and 25 grams cooked sticky rice. Mix well until combined. Cover and set aside for 20 minutes, or overnight in the fridge.
Step 2: Fry Meatballs
Heat a frying pan over medium-low heat. Form nine small pork meatballs from the prepared mix. Carefully drop the prepared meatballs into the hot pan and fry for 8-10 minutes, turning occasionally until the sausage meatballs are sizzling, nicely charred and cooked through.
Step 3: Serve
Transfer the meatballs to a serving plate and serve with sweet chilli sauce.
I hope you’ll try this Thai takeaway style pork meatballs recipe. If you do, let me know in the comments how it went!
Recipe Tips For Thai Style Pork Meatballs
- Thai style pork meatballs are a great way to use up leftover sticky rice – or, a great reason to have a pouch of supermarket cooked sticky rice in the cupboard!
- If you’re short on ingredients but have pork mince and red curry paste, just these two ingredients combined will still make very tasty meatballs!
Thai Style Pork Meatballs
Equipment
- 1 Frying Pan
Ingredients
- 1 small shallot, finely chopped
- 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- 1 Makrut lime leaf, thinly sliced and chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh coriander stems, finely chopped
- 1 generous teaspoon red curry paste
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- Pinch turmeric
- Pinch white pepper
- Pinch black pepper
- 125 grams pork mince
- 25 grams cooked sticky rice
Instructions
- In a pestle and mortar, add 1 small shallot, finely chopped, 1 garlic clove, finely chopped, 1 Makrut lime leaf, thinly sliced and chopped and 1 teaspoon fresh coriander stems, finely chopped. Pound to a rough paste. Transfer the paste to a large bowl. Add 1 generous teaspoon red curry paste, 1 teaspoon fish sauce, Pinch turmeric, Pinch white pepper, Pinch black pepper, 125 grams pork mince and 25 grams cooked sticky rice. Mix well until combined. Cover and set aside for 20 minutes, or overnight in the fridge.
- Heat a frying pan over medium-low heat. Form nine small meatballs from the prepared mix. Carefully drop the prepared meatballs into the hot pan and fry for 8-10 minutes, turning occasionally until the sausage meatballs are sizzling, nicely charred and cooked through.
- Transfer the Thai takeaway style sausage meatballs to a serving plate and serve with sweet chilli sauce.
Thai Style Pork Meatballs Recipe FAQ
What is Thai red curry paste?
Thai red curry paste is an aromatic and flavourful mix of fiery and mild red chillies, shallots, lemongrass, garlic and more. You can make your own, or buy it pre-made in supermarkets or online. I like Mae Ploy red curry paste.
Do you like this Thai takeaway style pork meatballs recipe? If so, buying a copy of my book might appeal to you! In The Thai Takeaway Secret you can find a host of restaurant and takeaway style recipes that you can make at home. You’ll learn how to make sweetcorn fritters, pad see ew, crispy volcano chicken, mango sticky rice and more! You can buy The Thai Takeaway Secret in paperback or kindle form here.
- McGovern, Kenny (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages – 05/09/2024 (Publication Date) – Robinson (Publisher)
