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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 meatballs 17g

Recipe makes 40 meatballs)

Calories 53
Calories from Fat 25 (48%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 2.9g 4%
Saturated Fat 1.0g 4%
Monounsaturated Fat 1.2g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0.4g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 25mg 8%
Sodium 70mg 2%
Potassium 62mg 1%
Total Carbohydrate 2.1g 0%
Dietary Fiber 0.2g 0%
Sugars 0.2g
Protein 4.4g 8%

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Meatballs

Recipe #26309 | 1½ hours | 15 min prep | add private note

By: KIM WILSON
Apr 25, 2002

My Grandmother used to make these every Friday night with a big plate of spaghetti.

40 meatballs (change servings and units)

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 1
    In a large mixing bowl add the meats and blend together with your hands.
  2. 2
    Add the onion, parsley, pepper, and garlic salt. Mix again with your hands until all the seasonings are well blended with the meat.
  3. 3
    In a bowl beat the eggs until well beaten. While mixing the egg into the meat mixture, add the bread crumbs 1/2 cup at a time until the meat begins to feel slightly firm.
  4. 4
    Form the meat into 1 1/2" balls with your hands.
  5. 5
    Gently place in cooking pan so that the meatballs are close but not touching.
  6. 6
    Cook in pre-heated oven at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 minutes or until browned.
  7. 7
    The meatballs will not be fully cooked yet.
  8. 8
    Add meatballs to your favorite sauce and simmer for one hour. (I usually use my Grandmother's sauce recipe, since this was her meatball recipe. I posted it under Spaghetti Sauce #79000 for anyone who would like it.).

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From: RatRaceParticipant

On Aug 17, 2009

We loved it.

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  • From: Chef #1065975

    On Jul 25, 2009

    fantastic & simple!! LOVED IT!! I tweaked it a bit, adding 4 TBS Parmesan cheese to the mix, and browning them in a frying pan with a bit of olive oil, then moving them to the next frying pan with a bit of chicken broth to finish cooking, covered. And it did make just about 40 meatballs.

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  • From: BoxO'Wine

    On Jun 4, 2003

    I used 2 lbs ground beef and 1 lb ground pork, 1 1/2 cups breadcrumbs and 2 cloves fresh garlic sauteed with a large minced onion, instead of the garlic salt. Baked the meatballs on my broiler pan in the oven so the fat would drip down away from the meatballs. Simmered the meatballs in the sauce for about 3 hours in the sauce as dinner was delayed, delayed, delayed. The meatballs were excellent and packed away the extras in the freezer for future use. Cant wait to have meatball sandwiches with melted mozzarella cheese over the weekend. I

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  • From: gary wright

    On Apr 29, 2002

    It took a while to cook it, but when it was time to sit down to dinner, my family and i all agreed, it was well worth it

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