Best 5 Oven Meatballs Recipes

EASY OVEN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Combine milk, onion, eggs and salt.
• Stir in bread crumbs and let stand for 5 minutes.
• Crumble in the ground meat, and mix thoroughly with your hands.
• Threaten to touch someone with your gross meat-covered hands (optional).
• Shape into 8 dozen small meatballs 1 to 1 1/2 inches in diameter.
• Place on baking pans and bake for 20 to 30 minutes, or until done- if you're not sure, cut one in half to check.
• If you don't have enough oven space or baking pans to bake all of this at once, please put the remaining raw meat mixture in the refrigerator until you can bake it.
• Let's be careful out there.
• Of course, using lean meat is the healthiest, but if the meat you're using is particularly fatty, I have found that baking the meatballs on a rack placed over a broiler pan or other shallow pan will allow most of the fat to drip away.
• If you do this, it's best to put a little water in the bottom of the pan or the fat may start to smoke.
• I do this in the oven, not the broiler.
• If you do try broiling meatballs, let me know how it turns out, for you are braver than I.
• MEATBALLS TO DIE FOR- This is an idea my husband came up with.
• Put your already baked meatballs in a baking dish.
• The more shallow the pan, the shorter time this will need to bake.
• Now, take a can of cream of mushroom soup, and a can of cream of shrimp soup.
• Mix them together, and add about 1/2 cup milk, just enough to let you mix it smoothly.
• Pour the soup mixture over the meatballs evenly.
• Bake this at 350 for about an hour.
• You want the sauce to get real thick and rich.
• We usually serve this over rice, but it can go over noodles or mashed potatoes, or on bread or a roll for a hot sandwich.
• I have also made it in a crockpot, cooking it on low for about 8 hours.
• Cooking on high turns this to mush.
• Still tastes good, but not pretty for serving to guests.
• This dish has been taken to many potlucks and served to guests numerous times, and there has never once been any leftovers-- so I can't say how it tastes re-heated!
• OTHER IDEAS Of course, it goes without saying (but I sometimes tend to state the obvious) that these are a perfectly easy way to make spaghetti and meatballs.
• Make your sauce (or open the jar) and gently heat the meatballs with the sauce.
• Using that same sauce, or using pizza sauce, or barbecue sauce, serve the meatballs on Hoagie/Submarine/Poorboy/Grinder8Ô (Insert Appropriate Regional Term Here) Rolls, with sauce and cheese of your choice.
• Heat in a sweet and sour sauce and serve on toothpicks as hors d'oerve (horse doovers?) or over steamed rice.
• A friend of mine used to make a simple barbecue sauce by mixing a jar of currant jelly with a bottle of chili sauce.
• Warm meatballs in this mixture, or use my Bobbie-Q Sauce recipe, and serve over in sandwich rolls, or over hot cooked rice, potatoes or noodles.
• On a hors d'oerve buffet, you can serve plain hot meatballs with an assortment of sauces for dipping.
• Provide toothpicks and small plates.
• As you can see, Easy Oven Meatballs in your freezer mean quick and easy meals!
• You'll come up with plenty more ideas to use these versatile, mildly seasoned morsels.

SWEET AND SOUR MEATBALLS IN OVEN

Steps:

• To make meatballs: In a large bowl, combine beef, onion flakes, bread crumbs, salt, nutmeg, eggs and milk.
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Shape mixture into 1 inch balls, and place into a 9x13 inch baking dish; bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes. Lower heat in oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• To make sauce: In a large saucepan over medium heat, mix vinegar, sugar, mustard and 1/2 cup water; bring to a boil, and boil for 1 minute. Mix cornstarch and 1/2 cup water; add to saucepan, and boil for 1 minute more.
• Add sauce to cooked meatballs, and bake in preheated oven for 45 minutes, basting occasionally.

OVEN MEATBALLS AND GRAVY

Steps:

• Cube french bread and soak in milk about 10 minutes or until soft.
• Crumble meat in large bowl and add eggs, onion, garlic Italian seasoning, salt and pepper.
• Squeeze milk out of bread and crumble bread into meat mixture.
• Mix well.
• Shape into balls and roll in bread crumbs.
• In dutch oven, heat olive oil.
• Brown meatballs in batches, turning to brown all sides.
• After browning, drain off all but about 1 tbsp oil and add butter and beef broth to pot.
• Add meatballs back in.
• Cover and bake in a 350 oven for 45 minutes-1 hour.
• When meatballs are done-- remove to platter and keep warm.
• Add cornstarch to the beef broth (I pour about 1/2 cup of broth into measuring cup and add the cornstarch, then pour back into pot).
• Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook, stirring until thickened for gravy.
• Serve over meatballs.

BASIC OVEN-COOKED MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl by hand.
• Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick cooking spray or oil. Form the meat into golf ball sized balls. Place on the prepared sheet.
• Cook for 20-25 minutes. Serve as desired.

EASY OVEN BAKED MEATBALLS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix the beef,t he next 4 seasonings and garlic; combine them well with hands.
• Add the beaten egg. Mix again.
• Finally add the bread crumbles; mix all the ingredients thoroughly with your hands.
• Shape the meat mixture into meatballs with hands. Place them on a shallow baking tray laid with foil. Chill them in the fridge for 30 minutes or 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 375°F(190°C). Bake the meatballs for 25 minutes.
• For spaghetti meatballs: Combine the meatballs with tomato sauce in a large pot. Simmer on low heat for 10 minutes before serving.
• Serve them with pastas.