I really like this recipe. I have made them with both ground beef and ground turkey. I like them better with turkey because the beef seems to overshadow the flavors of the seasonings cabbage and mushrooms. The Szechuan sauce and crushed red peppers makes the meatballs very spicy.
DELISH! These were excellent! I made my own sodium free Szechaun Sauce and left the salt out entirely you will never miss the sodium. Why pay for take-out when you can make your own? Very tasty - a keeper.
Meatballs were like golfballs While other reviewers focused on the sauce I felt the meatballs left a lot to be desired. There is nothing in them to create a tender texture no egg or bread crumbs so the result is a dense ball of meat. As for the sauce it was way too vinegar-y; I ended up adding some ketchup to try to mitigate the acid bite. Won't be making this again. Pros: none I can think of Cons: Too much time for a mediocre result
Delicious This was delicious! I used turkey instead of beef on the suggestion of another reviewer and I doubled the amount of 5-spice powder in the recipe and the meatballs turned out spicy but not too hot (for me at least my husband thought they were too spicy for him). I sliced the cabbage into strips instead of shredding it. Pros: Flavorful easy
Looks Great Love this idea...I generally just make Italian meatballs http://tiny.cc/hi2ef which I love - but I'm always looking for new twists. Definitely going to try these.
I made this recipe out of the 500-Calorie Dinner Cookbook and my husband and I both loved it! We served it with whole wheat linguine and steamed broccoli. The flavor of the sauce and the meatballs were both excellent. I did add some extra red pepper flakes to kick up the spice.
OOoooo really great! Per the other reviews I doubled the Chinese Five Spice powder in the meatballs added a salt-free Szechwan spice blend I found to the meat. I doubled the garlic and added 1/2 tsp. freshly grated ginger root in the sauce....I served it over brown rice and it was friggin' AWESOME!!! I used extra-lean ground sirloin and the flavor was incredible! Pros: Easy delicious low-cal Cons: Basic recipe needed tweaking...
I like this recipe but I think I would make a few changes. I had all the ingredients but the meatballs were VERY bland in my opinion. The five spice powder is not enough they need some finely chopped onion garlic and some red pepper flakes perhaps?
I considered this recipie mediocre. One of the ingredients it called for is "Szechuan sauce" which I could not find in my supermarket. (and this is a large supermarket) so I improvised and made a sauce with garlic fresh ginger sesame oil rice vinegar and soy sauce. The cabbage and sauce was flavorful but the meatballs were quite bland.
