Roaster Oven Meatballs Recipes

ROASTED MEATBALLS WITH GARLIC BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F with rack at center. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• For the meatballs: Pour breadcrumbs in a small bowl, add a few grates of nutmeg and douse well with milk. Toss and let the milk absorb.
• Place the meats in a large mixing bowl, season with salt and pepper, combine them and make a well. Rip off some parsley tops and finely chop; add to meats. Peel garlic. Grate in garlic with plane or chop by hand into meats. Pour in cheeses, sprinkle on fennel and red pepper flakes. Add egg and EVOO. Roll up sleeves, take off your jewelry. Combine the mixture and quarter the meat. Form each quarter portion into 2 large balls and place on parchment; roast 15 to 18 minutes.
• For the sauce: Meanwhile, in a medium Dutch oven or a deep cast-iron skillet heat EVOO, 2 turns of the pan, and melt butter into oil. When it foams, grate in garlic and stir 1 minute. Add canned tomatoes and passata. Break up tomatoes with spoon and bring to a bubble. Stir in basil leaves. Reduce heat on sauce a bit and let it bubble away 15 minutes, breaking sauce up with a paddle or spoon occasionally. Add salt and sugar if needed.
• For the garlic bread: While sauce and meatballs are cooking, heat EVOO, 2 turns of the pan, in a small pot or pan over medium heat and melt butter into it. Crush and grate garlic into butter and remove from heat. Split bread and add to oven a rack below the meatballs. Toast 5 minutes. Remove and brush with all the garlic and oil, top with cheese and chop a little parsley to sprinkle on top. Return to oven, warm another 3 minutes to set, remove.
• Remove meatballs from oven, drop into sauce and let them roll!
• Serve meatballs in rimmed plates or shallow bowls and add cut garlic bread for the mopping.

ITALIAN BAKED MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Mix bread crumbs, Romano cheese, parsley, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and onion powder together. Combine with water and eggs. Add ground beef and mix well. Roll mixture into balls and place on a nonstick baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until browned, about 30 minutes.

OVEN MEATBALLS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x9 inch baking dish and set aside.
• Form ground beef into 20 meatballs. Brown them on all sides in a large skillet over medium heat, about 15 minutes.
• Whisk together the ketchup, cornstarch, water, sugar, vinegar, dry mustard, salt, and soy sauce in a bowl until the sugar is dissolved and the cornstarch is smooth.
• Place the browned meatballs in the prepared baking dish, and pour the sauce over them. Bake 30 to 40 minutes in the preheated oven, until the sauce is thickened and the meatballs are cooked through.

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.

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.