Good old fashioned ham balls! If you have never had these, you gotta try them. These ham balls are a great use of your leftover holiday ham and they are so good. Serve these over rice or egg noodles, add some steamed veg, fresh chopped green onion and its dinner!
Ingredients and Variations
Ingredients: These are made with breakfast sausage, cooked ham, eggs, milk, pepper, onion powder and shredded wheat. For the sauce- brown sugar, ginger, garlic, pepper, ACV, water, ground mustard, clove and salt.
Variations: Sausage adds great flavor to these ham balls, but plain, ground pork can also be used. Breakfast sausage is used here, but any flavor can be used. Maple sausage is fantastic in these and so is Italian sausage. You can add any spices you like or none at all (it really doesn’t need it). If you don’t have shredded wheat in the cupboard, don’t worry about it, use bread or cracker crumbs.
You can change up the sauce flavors adding more Asian inspired flavors, change it to a more bbq flavored sauce or even add some heat! It’s up to you. The sauce can also be thickened with little cornstarch.
Ham Balls – Retro Recipe
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Ingredients
- Meatballs
1 lb bulk sausage
1 lb leftover, cooked ham, diced small or ground
2 eggs
3 shredded wheat biscuits, crushed
3/4 cup whole milk
- Sauce
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1 3/4 cup brown sugar, light or dark
2 tsp mustard powder
1/4 tsp ground cloves
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp fresh ground black pepper
1 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp ground ginger
Directions
- Heat over to 350°
- In a medium sauce pan over medium heat, mix all ingredients for sauce and cook 10 minutes until sugar is dissolved and mixture thickens slightly. It will still ne very thin, thicken with a cornstarch slurry if desired.
- Mix all ingredients together for meatballs and roll into golf ball sized balls. Pour sauce over top and bake them at 350° for 45 minutes, uncovered.
- Let them cool for 10 minutes before serving.
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