Asian Meatballs
These Asian Meatballs are an Asian inspired easy recipe. These tender meatballs are baked in the oven and tossed in a honey sticky sauce mixture. I may earn commissions for purchases made through links on this post.
ASIAN MEATBALL RECIPE
These homemade meatballs have Asian flavors and are great for a quick weeknight dinner.
INGREDIENTS
MEATBALL MIXTURE:
- GROUND TURKEY – Ground beef or chicken can be used as well.
- PANKO BREAD CRUMBS
- EGG
GREEN ONIONS - SOY SAUCE
- GARLIC
- SESAME OIL
- CRUSHED RED PEPPER FLAKES
- GROUND GINGER
SAUCE INGREDIENTS – soy sauce, cornstarch, honey, rice vinegar, sesame oil, sriracha, ground ginger
HOW TO MAKE THESE
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Preheat oven to 400°F and line a baking dish with parchment paper or grease it.
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In a large mixing bowl, mix ground turkey and remaining meatball ingredients with your hands until combined well. Meat mixture will be wet.
Scoop balls of meatball mixture (about 1 1/2 tablespoons each) and place on baking sheet in a single layer. It helps to use a cookie scoop here. 
Bake until cooked through, about 18-20 minutes. -
While meatballs are baking make the sauce: In a small pot, whisk together the soy sauce, water, and cornstarch. Add the other sauce ingredients and turn the heat on and up to medium heat. Cook for a few minutes until mixture thickens. Remove from heat.
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Transfer meatballs to a large bowl.
Toss meatballs with sauce and garnish with more green onions and sesame seeds if desired.
Scoop balls of meatball mixture (about 1 1/2 tablespoons each) and place on baking sheet in a single layer. It helps to use a cookie scoop here. 
Bake until cooked through, about 18-20 minutes.
Toss meatballs with sauce and garnish with more green onions and sesame seeds if desired.
Serve these tasty meatballs over white rice, jasmine rice, brown rice, or cauliflower rice for a low-carb option.
OTHER HEALTHY RECIPES:
- Edamame Quinoa Salad
- Healthy Vegetable Chicken Soup
- Turkey Meatballs
- Egg Roll In a Bowl
- Greek Skillet Chicken
- Easy Korean Beef
- Keto Pizza Skillet
- Cloud Bread
- Bacon Asparagus Frittata
- Lasagna in a Bowl
- Keto Cinnamon Pork Rinds
- Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken
Asian Meatballs
These Asian Meatballs are an Asian inspired easy recipe. These meatballs are baked in the oven and tossed in a honey soy sauce mixture.
Ingredients
MEATBALLS:
- 1 lb ground turkey, (ground chicken can be used too)
- 1/2 cup Panko breadcrumbs
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons sliced green onions
- 1 tablespoon low sodium soy sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon crushed red pepper
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
SAUCE:
- ¼ cup low sodium soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon rice wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon sriracha
- 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
(OPTIONAL) sliced green onions and sesame seeds for serving
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F and line a baking dish with parchment paper or grease it.
- Mix ground turkey and remaining meatball ingredients with your hands until combined well. Mixture will be wet. Scoop balls of meatball mixture (about 1 1/2 tablespoons each) and place on baking sheet. It helps to use a cookie scoop here. Bake until cooked through, about 18-20 minutes.
- While meatballs are baking make the sauce: In a small pot, whisk together the soy sauce, water, and cornstarch. Add the other sauce ingredients and turn the heat on and up to medium heat. Cook for a few minutes until mixture thickens. Remove from heat.
- Transfer meatballs to a large bowl. Toss meatballs with sauce and garnish with more green onions and sesame seeds if desired.
Serving: 1meatball, Calories: 50kcal, Carbohydrates: 4g, Protein: 7g, Fat: 1g, Saturated Fat: 0.2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.4g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.3g, Trans Fat: 0.004g, Cholesterol: 14mg, Sodium: 256mg, Potassium: 100mg, Fiber: 0.2g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 30IU, Vitamin C: 0.4mg, Calcium: 7mg, Iron: 0.4mg
My family enjoyed this new version of the Asian Turkey Meatballs and we’ll definitely make them again. But can you post the recipe for the version with cilantro and no spicy sauce? That was a monthly regular at our house.
Oh shoot Jaclyn. I’m sorry! It was from back in the day when everyone shared other bloggers recipes. You can find it here: https://www.skinnytaste.com/asian-turkey-meatballs-with-lime-sesame/
I can honestly say this is the first recipe where the only changes I made was to double it! Delicious and my kiddos love it. We eat it over brown rice and do use ALL the sauce.
Awesome to hear that!
I will try these tonight
Hope you do!
I made these last night – they were delicious! Definitely will make again! Thanks for the recipe.
Glad you enjoyed them.
Just made these for dinner after finish the link on Pinterest…oh my! Delicious! I served the. With white rice and sautéed some asparagus with the dipping sauce. Definitely making this again. Thanks for sharing. I will be sharing link on my Facebook profile.
I’ve never thought to make them with an asian twist! love it 🙂
So good and healthy.
Of course, I found my way to you through a Pin, but one really can’t just go to a blog without checking out more stuff. Your recipes look fabulous and I can’t wait to try them but I had to write bc I too, have 3 sons and my older two are VERY SIMILAR, EERILY SIMILAR to your two older children. My oldest son used to exchange his bills that he received as gifts for coins so that he had “more money.” My second does the same with the candy and everything else he can get his hands on. Good thing he is a swimmer and swims 2 hours a night now at practice. My youngest just forgets everything, so he wouldn’t think to swipe the candy from anyone else and probably forgot that he even collected any.
Thanks for sharing your story about your kids. It reminded me of the fun we have had some Halloweens. Mine are 15, 14 and 12 now and I miss the days when life was simple. (They are more fun as teens, but life is busier than I thought possible.)
Thanks for the recipes and I can’t wait to try them!
Thank you! How funny that we have similar stories! I’m a little scared that life gets busier. I can’t imagine…
This was FABULOUS!
I included your awesome recipe in a recipe round up on my blog today. 🙂
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Made these tonight for my husband and loved them! Just recently found your website and can’t stop looking at all the GREAT recipes. Can’t wait to try them! Thank you for your dedication!
This is a terrific recipe – thank you so much for sharing. I used a baked brown rice recipe from Food Network which was easy and very tasty.
@Melissa,
I used a recipe from Skinny Taste for Fried Brown Rice here: http://www.skinnytaste.com/2010/05/brown-fried-rice.html
YUM!! The brown rice looks amazing too, did you add anything to it or is it just plain old brown rice?
Thanks for your terrific recipes. I’d love to know how you make brown rice – mine always comes out crunchy and blah.
@The Carrs,
Panko breadcrumbs are a Japanese bread crumb that is bigger and crunchier. You could use regular breadcrumbs but if you ever have the chance you will love the Panko breadcrumbs.
Your kids sound adorable and each with their own little personality! I love this recipe and am going to try it as soon as I can! Looks great!
Oh dang, these look and sound really tasty. And I just so happen to have a package of ground turkey sitting in my fridge just waiting to be used. I think I know what I’ll be making tonight. What side dish did you serve them with? It looks really delicious.
P.S. I was definitely the Statistician when I was a kid. I never ate the candy, but kept it well hidden in the depths of my closet. My mom would always get mad when she would clean my room and find 9 month old Halloween candy in one of my pillowcases.
What is the difference between Panko and bread crumbs? Could I just use bread crumbs?
I made these for a dinner party this weekend. They were a huge hit! Thanks for another great recipe.
@Becky,
I’m always open for name suggestions so thank you! Feel free to link them…if you like them:)
These look so good! Though my father isn’t a fan of ground turkey, I just may have to make these for supper one night soon. I think even I can have them while I’m low-carbing. If I make them, would you mind if I link to you from my site? Also, are you still open to girl name suggestions? If so, Leora Kate has always sounded like such a pretty name to me and was a close second when we named our daughter.
oh wow! i just love these type of food!
These sound great! I will def have to bookmark this… my BF needs to eat more turkey and less ground beef all the time, and these sound like the perfect way to get him started 🙂
Love Skinnytaste’s recipes – Asian Meatballs sounds awesome to me – and I bet they taste great over rice with some of the lime dipping sauce over top…yum!
Funny on the Halloween candy categories:-)
Your candy descriptions for your kids were too funny. Thanks for this recipe! I don’t make a lot of Asian food either, but these sound easy and delicious. Bookmarking!
I never make Asian food either. These look tasty though! Could be fun little appetizers too.
I’m thinking these will be a great addition to the Christmas Eve spread we do with my mom! YUM!
Wow these look delicious!! I just forwarded on the recipe to my friends and we are talking about making them next week already 🙂
Yum. A great halfway between kid food and grown up food!
I love the description of your kids. I laughed when I read about swiper! 🙂
I love the descriptions of the kids! Does your statistician make bar graphs of his candy?
I used to line up all my tootsie rolls of different flavors and compare. I would also do this with all the fun size candy bars, and pretty much anything that had a comprable shape to make a nice bar.
No surprise- I work in math now… (But didn’t really like math in school- but Halloween bar graphs were my favorite!)
I love meatballs, and having an asian zing to them would be so fun! My husband is an Inhaler, too! Makes my stashing all that more difficult! 🙂
Haha! Love the description of your kiddos! Thanks for sharing a healthy recipe, I’m glad I’m not the only one who needs it right now!
Love Skinny Taste!! I always go there when I’m craving something healthier 🙂
I’d have to say I identify most with The Inhaler. Smart kid.