Make-ahead Baked Meatballs

Submitted by Chris from Kansas

"These are tasty and easy to make meatballs that can be used in many recipes. I especially like the suggestion for how to quickly form the meatballs. It is from Taste of Home magazine and is credited to Ruth Andrewson."

 

• Ready In: 30mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 3-4 batches

ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 2 cups dry breadcrumbs
• 1⁄2 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1⁄2 teaspoon white pepper
• 4 lbs lean ground beef

directions

1. In a large bowl, beat eggs.
2. Add the next five ingredients.
3. Add beef; mix well.
4. Lightly pat meat mixture into a 1-inch thick rectangle.
5. Cut the rectangle into squares the desired size of your meatballs.
6. Shape each square into a ball.
7. Place in single layers on ungreased 15X10 inch baking pans.
8. Bake at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes or until no longer pink; turning occasionally; drain.
9. Serve or cool and place desired number of meatballs into freezer containers.
10. May be frozen for up to 3 months.

Reviews

[I'mPat]

A good basic meatball recipe (I did omit the onion due to allergy issues) but otherwise followed through after scaling back to 1.5lb lean mince (ground beef) (about 700grams) which served 4 of us adequately with a salad and garlic bread with enough meatballs left over for DH to have 2 meals for work. I made a mushroom spaghettie sauce to serve over the meatballs and pasta. I baked the meatballs (24 of them) at 180C fan forced oven for 15 minutes (slightly pink in centre) but finished cooking in the spaghettie sauce - would recommend a slight undercooking if freezing as they would finish cooking on reheating or steeping in a sauce). Thank you Chris from Kansas for a quick easy recipe, made for Bargain Basement.

 

[Cherylau]

This was really easy to make and to pare down, I only had enough mince beef to make half a batch. But it made enough for 2 meals - sort of - no one liked the sauce I made so they only ate the meatballs - later I went to the kitchen to find half of the rest eaten as well.