Recipe suggestions?

[kengr]

Checking what I've got in the freezer, I find that I have several packages of ground pork. Not pork sausage, just ground pork.

Any suggestions on something to use it for?

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[acelightning]

Pork meatballs, seasoned with any combination of flavors you like (finely chopped onions, herbs and spices, whatever). Don't make them softball-size like ordinary meatballs; make them 1" to 1 1/2" in diameter. You can pan-fry them, or you can bake them (turning occasionally) until they're done, or you can steam them (Asian style). Then you can eat them with a dipping sauce, or mixed into a sauce for noodles and/or stir-fry. Once cooked, you can freeze them for later use; it doesn't matter that the raw meat was frozen to begin with.

Or you can use the meat "loose" to make meat sauce, anything from Italian ragù or bolognese tomato/meat sauces (which can also be frozen), to dishes such as Chinese Ma Po Tofu.

For that matter, you could make sausage out of it, but don't re-freeze it.

[kengr]

I prefer smaller meatballs anyway.

Any recommendations/suggestions for herbs? I have onion & garlic, I've got basil in the garden,

[acelightning]

Onions and/or garlic will fit with almost any ethnic cuisine. Add basil and oregano, black pepper, and some grated Parmesan cheese (or use Italian breadcrumbs with cheese already blended in), plus the usual egg, and you've got Italian meatballs.

For Asian meatballs, use ginger, garlic, soy sauce, cornstarch, black pepper, hot pepper (optional) and the aforementioned egg. There's a version called "pearl balls", where you roll the finished balls in glutinous rice (which contains no gluten, but is somewhat sticky when cooked) and steam them; the rice becomes translucent during the steaming - these are served with a spicy dip.

Basically, you can season meatballs any way you want - Mexican, Cajun, Indian, Greek, whatever.

Oh, and instead of meatballs... whoever said that a burger had to be made of ground beef? Grill up a pork patty!

[seawasp]

Pork enchiladas. Rachael Ray has a really good recipe for them.

[conuly]

I always like my meatballs and meatloaf 50% pork, 50% beef, chia seeds as binder. (Or, for healthy, mix in some turkey.)