Grammy's Kitchen · Meatballs · The BEST Teriyaki Beef Meatballs
One of 38 meatballs recipes we measured
from cafedelites.com
It ranks #4 of 38 for glaze depth among the meatballs recipes we compared. 6 cooks on cafedelites.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 38.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| binder | 9% | 0% |
| egg | 11% | 10% |
| dairy | 0% | 6% |
| aromatics | 18% | 9% |
| sweetener | 6% | 0% |
| salt | 0% | 1% |
| liquid | 13% | 12% |
Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 907 g | 2 pounds ground beef mince (or pork, chicken, turkey) |
| 81 g | 3/4 cup Panko breadcrumbs (or regular breadcrumbs) |
| 100 g | 2 eggs |
| 2 scallions (or green onions, finely chopped) | |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic (minced) |
| 32 g | 2 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce |
| 1 tablespoon cooking Sake (or Shaoxing, Chinese wine or dry sherry) | |
| 1 pinch salt (to taste) | |
| 2 g | 1 pinch pepper (to taste) |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon sesame oil |
| 6 g | 2 cloves garlic (minced, or 2 teaspoons) |
| 85 g | 1/3 cup low sodium soy sauce |
| 1/4 cup mirin | |
| 1/4 cup sake | |
| 53 g | 1/4 cup brown sugar |
| 118 g | 1/2 cup water |
| 8 g | 1 tablespoon cornstarch (cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons of water) |
| 1 teaspoon Sriracha (or more, adjust to your preference of spice) | |
| 1 pinch sesame seeds | |
| 150 g | 1 green onion (finely sliced) |
Method: 7 steps, published by cafedelites.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Made it tonight and kids (home from college for the summer) loved it. I was looking for an Asian ground beef recipe and came upon this. I saw multiple similar recipes and liked this one the best. Will be part of my dinner rotation! Looking forward to tryin” — a cook, 5.0★
“I made this last night. I only made the sauce because I had some frozen meatballs. This sauce is ? delicious! I didn’t have sake so I used diluted rice wine vinegar . My husband loved it. It is a perfect balance of sweet and sour. Oh, I did add some grat” — a cook, 5.0★