Asian Meatball Sandwich Recipe with Avocado - Healthy Dinner Recipe (2024)

This takes meatball sandwiches to a whole new level! The flavors in this Asian Meatball Sandwich recipe are beyond delicious. Sweet and savory, with a side of healthy. 341 calories and 9 Weight Watchers Freestyle SP. Thanks to the California Avocados for helping me to share this recipe with you.

Asian Meatball Sandwich Recipe with Avocado

This Asian meatball sandwich recipe brings up fond memories of family birthdays. When I was a kid, my most requested birthday meal was spaghetti and meatballs (or meat sauce), specifically made from the recipes in my Disney cookbook. Lady and the Tramp spaghetti and Tinkerbell's meat sauce, thank you very much.

The spaghetti and meatballs birthday request tradition carried on with my boys, though gradually morphed into rice with Baked Teriyaki Turkey Meatballs, which are also perfect (sans rice) on any hors d'oeuvres table. Just give your guests some toothpicks for stabbing and the meatballs will disappear in no time.

Knowing how much my family adores these meatballs, I wanted to give them new life in another recipe - in other words, another reason for my kids to say, "Mum, this is better than going out to restaurant. Well, except for sushi." My meals will never hold a candle to sushi in their minds. I can't say I blame them.

This meatball sandwich recipe may not rival sushi, but it holds its own, with tender, Asian-spiced meatballs, creamy avocado and a sauce that's good enough to drizzle on everything from meatballs and shrimp to chicken and pizza. I took a more simplistic approach with the sauce. Rather than sticking with our usual teriyaki sauce, I made a hoisin based sauce that only requires 5 ingredients, one of them being water. As I said - easy!

Tips for this Asian meatball sandwich recipe:

• Since these are somewhat similar to banh mi sandwiches, grated carrots seemed like the logical choice to tuck into the flatbreads with the meatballs, but red bell pepper, daikon or even jicama (or a combination of multiple vegetables) would work well, too. Think color, crunch and freshness!
• For the whole wheat flatbread, I used the small round ones found at Trader Joe's (which is reflected in the nutritional information). If you don't have access to a Trader Joe's, any whole wheat flatbread, or even pocketless whole wheat pita bread, will do.

Other avocado recipes:

Kicked-Up Avocado Margarita {Cookin' Canuck}
{Cookin' Canuck}
Southwest Chicken, Avocado & Quinoa Lettuce Wraps {Noble Pig}
Souffle Bombay's Eggs Benedict with Avocado, Sriracha Hollandaise & Avocado Cream {Souffle Bombay}

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This post was originally published on June 10, 2015, and was updated on June 3, 2019.

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