These Easy Hawaiian Meatballs are set to be your new favourite weeknight traybake. Using shop-bought meatballs, it’s a breeze to rustle up and is packed of full of tropical flavour the whole family will enjoy.
Add the BBQ sauce, brown sugar, ginger, garlic and salt & pepper into the centre of an extra-large roasting pan. Using a silicone brush, add in the soy sauce while stirring it all together.
Then add the meatballs and using your hands, toss them through the sauce until completely coated.
Then add in the red pepper and the pineapple and toss everything together briefly.
Bake for 20 minutes (or longer - according to the meatball instructions). When done toss the meatballs in the sauce using a spoon and serve with rice.
Baby & Toddler
Only coat their meatballs in the sweet sauce, leave their pineapple and peppers plain; use a second oven tray and coat lightly in olive oil only. Cook for the same amount of time. Use naturally sweetened BBQ sauce if you like. Do not add salt to the cook.
BABY-LED WEANING
6 months + Cut half a small red pepper (bell) & coat lightly in olive oil. Add to a separate oven tray. Chop one or two 1 inch thick slices of pineapple and again coat in oil and transfer to the second oven tray. Cook these alongside the traybake. When done, slice the pineapple lengthways about ½ cm in thickness. Peel the skin off the red pepper half and serve whole. Slice their meatballs into thin slices. Serve on white rice.9 months +Dice their meatballs, red pepper and pineapple into pea-size pieces. Serve on or mixed into white rice.12 months + Everything can be chopped into small bite-size pieces and served with rice.
SPOON FED-WEANING
6 months Add a couple broken up meatballs to your stick blender pot or food chopper (if you have that one that purées) along with some pineapple, red pepper and a little rice and whizz into a purée. Add warm boiled water to loosen as needed.7-9 months Add some broken up meatballs, some red pepper and pineapple along with a little rice to your food chopper. Use short sharp pulses to finely chop, checking and adding a little warm no or low-salt beef stock or warm boiled water to loosen as you go.10-12 months Add just the meatballs, pineapple and peppers to your food chopper pot. Gradually pulse, just a few times then check the consistency. It should lumpy with small meatballs pieces. Once the consistency is right, empty it into their bowl and add some rice and stir through. If it needs loosening, add a little warm no or low-salt beef stock and a little sauce from the pan.12 month + Chop the meatballs, pineapple and red pepper into small bite-size pieces and serve alongside or mixed in with some rice.
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