Homemade Meatballs. This baked meatball recipe has been a go-to classic for generations of home cooks, who rely on its precisely perfect proportions of meat, bread crumbs, milk, egg and seasonings. Once you've mastered the basics of how to make meatballs, you can try even more time-tested recipes and modern new twists from Betty's best meatball recipes collection. Meatballs made with ground beef, veal and pork, with garlic and Romano cheese.
Allow the meatballs to cool down before trying to pick them up or they will break apart. "Homemade meatballs are a very easy to make, and since we skip the very messy step of pan-frying these before they hit the sauce, it becomes downright simple.
Here I use a standard half-beef/half-pork mixture.
You can substitute water or beef broth for the milk, if preferred." Meatballs are easy and fun to make from scratch.
You can cook Homemade Meatballs using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Homemade Meatballs
- Prepare 3 of lbs. Ground beef.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of minced onions.
- Prepare 1 of egg.
- You need of Large dollop of sour cream.
- You need 1/3 cup of milk.
- Prepare of Onion powder.
- You need of Chicken bouillon.
- Prepare of Black pepper.
- It's Can of mushroom soup.
- Prepare of Optional pack of mushroom gravy mix.
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Homemade Meatballs step by step
- Flatten out your ground beef and add egg, a pinch or two of black pepper, minced onions, a half teaspoon of chicken bouillon (or just use a package of Lipton onion soup mix with the egg) then make into round shaped meatballs. Use your own discretion as far as size..
- Preheat your oven to •350 Lightly oil a baking pan and place the meatballs in. While they're baking, in a bowl, whisk the mushroom soup and/or mushroom soup with a half of cup of water(or whole cup if you want more gravy) pinch of black pepper and a couple of pinches of chicken bouillon in the mixture.
- Take the soup and gravy mixture and pre cook in a skillet. Add the sour cream and milk. Basically to marinate and bind the flavours. Cook about 10-12 minutes. While this is cooking, take the meatballs out the oven. Use some of the drippings to grease your crock pot then put the meatballs in the crock pot on high. Now, pour the gravy mixture over the meatballs, stir so that they'll all be saturated. Cover and cook for about 1.5 hours. Then enjoy!.
Every now and then we make pasta with sausage or a creamy pasta sauce. We even love meatless pasta recipes. But every so often we just have to take it. In a large bowl, combine eggs, water, onion, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, garlic and seasonings; mix well. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well.