Thai Pork Meatballs with Sweet & Spicy Dipping Sauce

Packed with lemongrass, lime leaves, chilli, and ginger, these fragrant pork meatballs are skewered and cooked low and slow before being finished directly over the coals and basted in a sticky tamarind and palm sugar glaze. A vibrant sweet, sour, and spicy dipping sauce — sharpened with lime and finished with fresh coriander — makes them utterly impossible to stop eating.

MEATBALLS

500g pork mince
2 tsp fish sauce
2 spring onion, finely chopped
½ red chillies, finely chopped
2 lime leaves, finely chopped
2 tsp coriander leaves, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp ginger, minced
1 lemongrass stick, minced
1 tbsp palm sugar

SAUCE

2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp tamarind paste
2 garlic cloves, finely diced
1 thumb ginger, finely diced
½ red chilli, sliced
2 spring onions, sliced
2 tbsp palm sugar
½ lime juice
100ml water
1 tbsp coriander leaves, chopped